#value drift

[gnadlib]

Schwarmintelligenz im Straßenverkehr

Seit Jahren wird an autonomen Autos geforscht, ständig gehen mehr oder weniger plausible Vorhersagen durch die Medien. Das Auto von morgen werde vollautonom sein, Verkehrssituationen mindestens so gut wie menschliche Fahrer einschätzen, die technischen Möglcihkeiten der jeweiligen Fahrzeuge besser ausnutzen, keine Fahrfehler machen. So ziemlich alles werde automatisiert geschehen, sogar…

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[epistemic-horror]

...[Richard B. Russell] wrote a friend that the growing strength of northern efforts to force schools, swimming pools and other public places to accept both races was bringing “our southern civilization” to the verge of collapse. “I am sick about it,” he wrote. He jotted on an office notepad that if the North had its way, even “baseball [and] football teams would have to play negroes.”

It seems like slippery slope arguments are. historically, quite often correct, but we don’t care or don’t notice because value drift blinds us to the idea that the presumed outcome of the slippery slope was so horrifying in the first place. (See also Scalia’s dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, in which he predicted --- correctly, as it turns out --- that gay marriage was the inevitable outcome of the majority ruling.)