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This cavalier Casanova who always had teenage boy intuitions via his tiny little voice was the ideal guy, he got to drive a Ferrari, the women thought he was so good looking and athletic, and the male T.V Viewers had an overt admiration of Thomas Magnum's innocent chicanery!
And with that data, the algorithm develops sophisticated models of productivity that far surpass our commonsense intuitions.
In his foreign policy, too, Sarkozy seems to combine the right intuitions with the wrong tactics – that is, when his entire strategy is not marred by the pursuit of contradictory objectives.
AI researchers must recognize that ethics is a long-studied field within philosophy; it goes far beyond laypersons’ intuitions.
At a time when four powerful forces are disrupting the global economy, upending most of our assumptions, such pronouncements on the future, shaped by intuitions based on the past, are even more likely to be wrong.
Each of these four “great disruptions” is transformational on its own, and all are amplifying the effects of the others, producing fundamental and unpredictable changes on a scale the world has never seen – and that will prove our intuitions wrong.
But the research is advancing fast, and it is almost certain to suggest new ways to reshape our moral intuitions, sentiments, and motivations.
Can he transform intuitions and speeches into concrete actions?
Good social science turns our unexamined intuitions into a map of causal arrows.
Sometimes it shows how those intuitions lead to surprising, unanticipated results when extended to their logical conclusions.
Should We Trust Our Moral Intuitions?
When we condemn the behavior of a politician, celebrity, or friend, we often end up appealing to our moral intuitions.
Philosophers have puzzled about how to justify our intuitions in these situations, given that in both cases, the choice seems to be between saving five lives at the cost of taking one life.
Greene, however, was more concerned to understand why we have the intuitions, so he used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or fMRI, to examine what happens in people’s brains when they make these moral judgments.
Greene’s work helps us understand where our moral intuitions come from.
But the fact that our moral intuitions are universal and part of our human nature does not mean that they are right.
On the contrary, these findings should make us more skeptical about relying on our intuitions.
So we should think for ourselves, not just listen to our intuitions.
Physicians develop expertise over many years, and when they have ample opportunities for feedback about their judgments, their intuitions are valuable, particularly in more complex cases.
But an alternative explanation, consistent with the facts of biology and geology, is that over millions of years we have evolved a moral faculty that generates intuitions about right and wrong.
These intuitions reflect the outcome of millions of years in which our ancestors have lived as social mammals, and are part of our common inheritance.
Our evolved intuitions do not necessarily give us the right or consistent answers to moral dilemmas.
In this respect, it is important for us to be aware of the universal set of moral intuitions so that we can reflect on them and, if we choose, act contrary to them.
If self-defense is not permissible in cases of manifest, imminent attack, then the doctrine can hardly appeal to ordinary moral intuitions.
First-year law school students in the US learn how to suppress their natural intuitions of justice – a defective car caused an accident that injured a child severely; surely the manufacturer should pay – in favor of carefully reasoned analysis of the costs and benefits to society as a whole.
The rider, in Haidt’s metaphor, is the mental process we control, mainly conscious reasoning, and the elephant is the other 99% of our mental processes, mostly our emotions and intuitions.
In the case of scientific information, people cannot rely on their personal experience, but they still have intuitions.
Unfortunately, most scientific theories are counter-intuitive: my intuitions tell me that the sun revolves around the earth, which is flat, for example.
But rejecting messages that do not fit with our intuitions is only an initial reaction, which can be overcome under the right conditions.
I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him.
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