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Eq*y

Alistair Young

Alistair Young

Sep 17, 2020

“A computational system has reached the threshold of making ethical judgements when it no longer parses the equity operator as the semantic equivalent of the equality operator.”

– Introduction to Polymorphic Software (3rd ed.),
Sarval Estantel

ethical calculus, ethics, cyberethics, artificial intelligence
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