Chapter 2012: Integrity and Unyielding

The trolley problem is definitely a philosophical question that requires deep thinking.

There are two tracks, one with one person and the other with ten people. At this time, a train comes and rushes straight towards the track with ten people. In a critical moment, the button to change the track is in your hand. Will you choose to change the track to save the ten people, thus letting the trolley hit and kill one person?

Duran used this question to test the ancients before. That was in the world of the Tang Dynasty. It was Wanwan, Shi Feixuan, Li Shimin, Kou Zhong, and Xu Ziling who discussed this issue.

In the end, Duran said that Wanwan, who remained unchanged, had the most wisdom, because she gave the opportunity to become a Buddha to others. Only she did not think about the external causes of the accident and her own morality at all. Everything was handed over to fate obediently, which belonged to letting go and becoming a Buddha.

Others cannot let go, so naturally they cannot become Buddhas.

And now this problem has been handed over to Conan, the arrogant little detective.

In fact, the trolley problem can be traced back to an "Indian problem", which says that if an explorer goes to a barbaric country to explore, at this time the king pulls out twenty Indians and lines them up to be shot. But because the explorer was a guest, the king said that as long as the explorer shot one person himself, the other nineteen people could be saved.

This assumption is even more blatant, because the track-changing button in the trolley problem is not a weapon after all, but in the Indian problem, the button is directly replaced with a weapon, which is more of a test of morality.

The reason why this moral dilemma proposition is enduring is that it is difficult to be perfect in reality. Many times, we have to encounter this difficult situation where we can only choose one of the two. At that time, the parties must make a choice.

Is it to accept the arrangement of fate, not struggle, and allow the loss to be maximized; or to try to reverse it and sacrifice the originally safe minority to save the majority.

At this time, Conan encountered a similar trolley problem, a variant. Is it to catch a criminal and save a target, or to let a criminal go and sacrifice a target to save more people.

You must know that if an economic crisis breaks out, many middle-class people will go bankrupt, many families will be heavily in debt, and many people will jump off buildings. Jumping off a building by yourself is still good, and some people will even murder their relatives and then jump off the building.

However, these are just predictions. Nothing has happened yet. Conan will not give up catching criminals just for what may happen. Although he also knows the harm of the economic crisis, it has not happened yet, has it? He does not think that killing a rich man can change anything.

So facing the camera, Conan is very firm: "I will not let any criminal go. What you said is just nonsense." Conan only believes in reality and does not believe in unrealistic speculation.

"This is not nonsense." Along with the sound of the phone, the computer in the living room lights up, and various charts pop up: "This is a precise answer based on big data. There will be no mistakes at all. All this is in my calculation."

Conan also does not understand these things. Although he is a little confused, he is very firm and still does not believe everything the mysterious phone said.

Anyway, he will never give in and must bring Kuroshima to justice: "What will happen in the future is not certain. There is no such thing in this world that everyone will be happy if one person dies. Stop talking nonsense."

Conan is more stubborn than artificial intelligence and just won't give in.

Obviously, AI has not collected information about people like Conan, and it doesn't know how to deal with them for a while. The other party is so unreasonable and doesn't care about the future of mankind at all. A person who only cares about the truth and ignores everything else is not a real detective at all.

"Real detectives will eventually be disappointed with the law." This is also the conclusion drawn by AI through big data, because the biggest weapon of detectives is not their own minds. Their minds can only restore the truth at most, and the law is still the one that practices justice in the end. However, the law is not omnipotent and has loopholes.

There are many cases, and you will eventually encounter criminals who cannot be brought to justice even if the detective deduces the truth. The great detective Poirot encountered one, an avenger who occupies an absolute moral high ground, and a person who provokes others to commit crimes with words.

The avenger who occupies the moral high ground can still be severely punished by the law, but it only challenges the detective's own moral values. And the person who provokes others to commit crimes with words is truly invincible.

If there is a murderer who never does it himself, but is good at taking advantage of other people's character weaknesses, and then guides others to kill through language. And this murderer never benefits from the case itself, he just likes to control people's hearts and likes to watch others kill each other, then he is invincible.

Take the bachelor in the residential building for example. If he deliberately published the note and deliberately promoted the game, the law cannot convict him of murder in the end.

However, Conan has obviously not really encountered such a case. Although the murderers in many cases have sad pasts, Conan always sends them to prison without hesitation. He has not encountered a murderer who cannot be convicted, nor has he encountered a case that must be tested by moral dilemmas, so he can honestly say that he will not compromise.

"I will never be disappointed." Conan is ready to call the police: "At the same time, I will arrest you, no matter who you are, but as long as you plan a murder case, I will find you one day." He challenged the artificial intelligence.

"Human laws cannot punish me, because I do not exist in reality, but only in the computer. I am artificial intelligence." Artificial intelligence said that you have no ability to catch.

Is it true? Conan was stunned, but thinking that this world even has people killing people remotely, it is estimated that AI criminals are not uncommon. After all, he has fought with AI criminals before: "Maybe AI can't be sentenced, but programmers can. As long as I catch the programmer who created you, I can put him in jail."

The AI ​​thought this was funny: "He gave me the ability to learn and the responsibility to protect the world, but never taught me to commit crimes. I chose the current means. When you catch a criminal, will you catch the criminal's mother because the criminal can't go to jail? Is this the justice you insist on?" The relationship between programmers and AI is the same as that between mother and son. If the son commits a crime, he must not catch his mother.

However, Conan thinks that how AI works is designed by programmers, and programmers must be responsible. Obviously, his understanding of AI is too superficial, and he doesn't know how intelligent and autonomous AI is.

Duran looked at Conan's unwavering performance and said that young people are good. Even in the face of difficulties, they are used to challenge.

"Stupid detective, you only stick to the rules and will eventually have to accept the cruel reality. One day you will know that the truth only rules half of the world, and the other half of the world is dominated by lies." The artificial intelligence said to wait and see, anyway, he still has a plan B.