Among the many lessons “The Good Place” tried to teach us, along with how to be “good” and what we owe to each other, was how to make a difficult decision when there is really no good choice. The ...

There is an old thought experiment called the Trolley Problem that’s become central to the development of autonomous cars. In the context of self-driving cars, it sets up a scenario where an ...

Trebz/Wikimedia Commons The trolley is coming, tra la tra la. When I first heard about the trolley problem a few weeks ago on the radio, I must have missed a few details. The subjects in a research ...

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Should the driver of a crashing car be allowed to swerve into your lane and kill you, if she calculates that doing so would save her life? What if she'd die, too, but would save the lives of a ...