"Trolley problem" nghĩa là gì?

"Trolley problem" = bài toán xe đẩy -> nghĩa là thử nghiệm tư duy về đạo đức học được đặt ra một tình huống giả định và người được yêu cầu phải lựa chọn giữa hai kết quả tiêu cực.

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Over the next decade, one in 10 vehicles will be self-driven. These autonomous vehicles will recognise objects, interpret situations, and make decisions to ensure rider safety and respect traffic regulations. AI will be making decisions for us in the future, not just in mobility but also in other fields like healthcare and finance. Tomorrow we’ll have AI recommending a particular treatment course for a patient, deciding loan approvals and rejections, identifying friendlies and enemies on the battlefield. The classic ‘trolley problem’ will become profound in the age of AI and ML.

Picard's season 2 premiere, Jean-Luc casually mentions redesigns to the infamous Kobayashi Maru test. First introduced in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the Kobayashi Maru has been mentioned numerous times in various Star Trek media and is widely acknowledged outside of the fandom. Simply, the Kobayashi Maru is designed to test the character of Starfleet Academy cadets during a no-win scenario, much like that of philosopher Philippa Foot's trolley problem. However, Picard's proposed alterations could fundamentally alter the nature of one of Star Trek's most iconic and enduring elements.

That's the problem with a whole episode like this, a flashback that explains things purely as justification to the audience with no immediate effect on our actual main plot or characters. The only remotely revelatory piece of information is the absolutely hilarious implication that Asumi's consciousness in the system is foisting these choices on RGB as some sort of decision-making calibration (sự định cỡ), like a kind of absurd trolley-problem captcha. But even then the boys are no more privy to the past that led to this present than before, making this come off like a desperate appeal to us instead: Entirely an exercise in trying to convince the audience of how complex a moral paradox this whole situation actually is. The thing is, if its story had really been so compelling up to this point, it wouldn't have needed to make a play like this. And worse, that play isn't even successful, because it spends all this time articulating in-universe character motivations that could have been inferred, rather than trying to make any compelling conceptual arguments. With basically no new information or ideas, it feels like a huge waste of a time in a show that's already regularly felt like it was wasting our time.

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