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Jade Fisher's avatar

Have you read Technology and the Virtues by Shannon Vallor? Almost exactly these points as well, highly recommend.

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Tanner Harms's avatar

Interesting thoughts! What you said about technological ethics being limited to avoiding harm reminds me of the Moral Foundations theory developed by Jonathan Heidt. His book, The Righteous Mind, goes into the theory in a popular readership form. As I recall, there were 6 moral foundations - like PCA basis functions - from which moral decisions were made. Harm was only one of these axes.

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