Exam #1 Flashcards
Duty to Oneself
A Duty to preserve and protect your rational agency
Autonomy
the ability to pursue the ends that you choose
Digital Minimalism
we should restrict our technology use as much as possible
Respect
preserve yourself and rational agency
Intrinsic good/valuable
its good by its self, nothing leads to it
Extrinsic Goodness
a good that can get us something that has value (ex:money)
Value-Based
what’s considered right or wrong is depended on what a morally good person would do
Duty-Based Theories
the right thing to do is acting on what we have a duty to do and our obligations
Consequentialism-
if the consequences are as good as the consequences of an alternative action
Natural Law Theory
St. Thomas Aquanis, the action is right if it doesn’t directly violate any of the basic values; have knowledge, human life, human sociability
The Formula of Humanity
a action is right as long as you treat someone as you would treat yourself and not as you near meres (not respecting their freedom)
Rights-Based Theories
operating on positive and negative rights,
positive
the right for someone to provide us with something
negative
someone doing something towards us
Virtue Ethics
What makes an action right??,
Rossian Theories
its right if its recommended by the prema facia duty
Prema facia
a duty that can be upheld on a basic level but can be over hidden
Algorithmic Bias
the first sentence of the abstract, the social patterns that get reflected in machine learning even when programmers don’t add those biases
Cognitive Bias-
own biases that we are usually trying to eliminate by using machine learning programs
Opacity
something we can’t see, understand, or know
The Proxy Problem
when the computer discriminates social sensitive categories, (ex: zip codes)
Algorithm
taking of data, processing it, and giving us certain outcomes
The argument for digital minimalism
we have to do things that protect our rational agencey
The structure of particular moral theories
-to be able to identify if something is a duty based, if what actions are right and wrong
-promoting good states of affairs
Why the proxy problem is a serious problem
-some association aren’t using common knowledge
