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Dilemma
About: Dilemma is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16202 publications have been published within this topic receiving 250251 citations. The topic is also known as: Dilemna.
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TL;DR: This video explains how to build ethical robots with real-time decision-making capabilities and shows how simple and easy it is to design and build ethical machines.
Abstract: Working out how to build ethical robots is one of the thorniest challenges in artificial intelligence.
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TL;DR: A persistent anomaly in the social dilemmas literature is the surprisingly high level of cooperation observed in experimental investigations of the one-shot Prisoners' Dilemma (PD) as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A persistent anomaly in the social dilemmas literature is the surprisingly high level of cooperation observed in experimental investigations of the one-shot Prisoners' Dilemma (PD).The exchange heu...
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TL;DR: In this article, a leading innovation expert and his HBS colleague explore the reasons for this sluggishness and find that investments in different types of innovation have different effects on growth but are all evaluated using the same (flawed) metrics.
Abstract: Sixty months after the 2008 recession ended, the economy was still sputtering, producing disappointing growth and job numbers. Corporations seemed stuck: Despite low interest rates, they were sitting on massive piles of cash and failing to invest in new initiatives. In this article, a leading innovation expert and his HBS colleague explore the reasons for this sluggishness. The crux of the problem, they say, is that investments in different types of innovation have different effects on growth but are all evaluated using the same (flawed) metrics. Performance-improving innovations, which replace old products with better models, and efficiency innovations, which lower costs, don't produce many jobs. (Indeed, efficiency innovations eliminate them.) Market-creating innovations, which transform products so radically they create a new class of consumer, do generate jobs for their originators and for the economy. But the assessment metrics that financial markets--and companies--use always show efficiency and performance-improving innovations to be better opportunities. This is the capitalist's dilemma: Doing the right thing for long-term prosperity is the wrong thing for investors, according to the tools that guide investments. Those tools, however, are based on an unexamined assumption: that capital is scarce, and that performance should be assessed by how efficiently companies use it. The truth is, capital is no longer scarce, and our tools need to catch up to that reality. INSETS: Idea in Brief;Untitled;Spreadsheets: The Fast Food of Strategic Decision Making;When the World Is Awash in Capital
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TL;DR: The authors defend moral realism against Street's "Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value" and argue that the dilemma does not add anything to realists' epistemic worries.
Abstract: This paper defends moral realism against Sharon Street’s “Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value” (this journal, 2006). I argue by separation of cases: From the assumption that a certain normative claim is true, I argue that the first horn of the dilemma is tenable for realists. Then, from the assumption that the same normative claim is false, I argue that the second horn is tenable. Either way, then, the Darwinian dilemma does not add anything to realists’ epistemic worries.
70 citations
Book•
01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: In The Dilemma of Context as discussed by the authors, Scharfstein argues that the problems encountered with context are insoluble. He explains why this problem lays an intellectual burden on us that, while remaining inescapable,can become so heavy it destroys the understanding it was created to further.
Abstract: In The Dilemma of Context, Scharfstein contends that the problems encountered with context are insoluble. He explains why this problem lays an intellectual burden on us that, while remaining inescapable,can become so heavy it destroys the understandingit was created to further.
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