Quotes
AI
Political Philosophy
Environmental Ethics
Medical Ethics
100

The welfare of the athlete must be our primary concern. If a drug does not expose an athlete to excessive risk, we should allow it even if it enhances performance.

Who is Savulescu, Foddy, and Clayton?

100

Chat GPT and other generative AI are used to generate the next "one of these" in a sequence?

What is word or image?

100

This theory says that morality is determined by what people would agree to under certain conditions.

What is social contract theory?

100

This concept from Aldo Leopold includes not just soil but also the plant and animal life it supports.

What is "land"?

100

This naturally occuring hormone increases skeletal muscle growth and is mimicked by anabolic steroids.

What is testosterone?

200

When we speak of the “environment”, what we really mean is a relationship existing between nature and the society which lives in it. Nature cannot be regarded as something separate from ourselves or as a mere setting in which we live. We are part of nature, included in it and thus in constant interaction with it.

Who is Pope Francis?

200

Programmers use information from this source in order to pre-train their AIs.

What is the internet?
200

This theory says that a person's well-being should be based on whether they have the real opportunity to achieve valuable states of being and doing.

What is the capabitilies approach?

200

According to Leopold, an action is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of this thing.

What is the biotic community?

200
In game theory, this "situation" occurs when even though it would be better off for everyone to cooperate, everyone will nonetheless pursue the dominant strategy which makes things worse overall.

What is a prisoner's dilemma?

300

The finitude of human life is a blessing for every individual, whether they know it or not. Getting rid of the dragon would deflect us from realizing the aspirations to which our lives naturally point. It is debasing – yes debasing – for a person to want to continue their mediocre life for as long as possible without worrying about the higher questions of what life is for.

Who is Nick Bostrom?

300

The National Health Service fed anonymized data into an AI system to do this activity typically reserved for doctors and nurse practitioners.

What is give diagnoses and predictions?

300
Rawls's Theory of Justice aims to defend this form of government. 

What is liberal democracy?

300

This approach to social problems proposed by Cardinal Cardijn was adopted by Pope Francis in his papal encyclical Laudao Si.

What is the See, Judge, Act method.

300

According to Savulescu et al., professional athletes should be allowed to use PEDs so long as this is done regularly.

What is getting tested for healthy and safety?

400

The merit of the contract terminology is that it conveys the idea that principles of justice may be conceived as principles that would be chosen by rational persons, and that in this way conceptions of justice may be explained and justified. 

Who is John Rawls?

400
This use of AI in medicine takes advantage of an LLM's ability to recognize patterns in images.

What is radiology/cancer detection?

400
Political freedoms, freedom of religion, and freedom to own property count as this type of liberty according to the first principle of justice.

What are basic liberties?

400

According to this "paradigm", solutions to problems are understood from a technical or scientific worldview with less emphasis on moral or social considerations.

What is the technocratic paradigm?

400

This "score" is used to help determine whether an embryo will be less susceptible to a range of diseases.

What is a polygenic risk score?

500

“The less violent the man-made changes, the greater the probability of successful readjustment in the pyramid.”

Who is Aldo Leopold?

500

Large language models are the basis of generative AI that use this concept drawn from neuroscience.

What is a neural network?

500

The government must ensure that you have the capability to exercise this thing in order for you to actually have it.

What is a right?

500
Aldo Leopold mentions an example of a government land assistance program from this state that failed to foster an environmental conscience because farmers simply took the assistance without developing rules for land use.

What is Wisconsin?

500
This substance is used by doping athletes as well as blood cancer patients in order to increase packed cell volume. 

What is EPO?

600

Intelligent machines will be our intellectual children, our progeny. ... If we are wise and benevolent, we will have prepared the way for them to make their own choices – just as we do with our adolescent children.

Who is Regina Rini?

600

This view of ethics claims that moral truths apply to all rational beings and that we must discover and conform to them.

What is the celestial view of ethics?

600

According to this way of ordering principles, any principle with higher priority must be fully satisfied before any lower priortiy principle can be considered.

What is lexical priority?

600

Because data centers require massive amounts of these two resources, ethicists are worried about their environmental impact. 

What are fresh water and electricity?

600

What international body is responsible for testing athletes who compete in international competitions?

What is WADA (world anti-doping agency)?

700

bringing the rational and the animal into a more intimate relation with one another, and acknowledging that there are many types of dignity in the world, including the dignity of mentally disabled children and adults, the dignity of the senile demented elderly, and the dignity of babies at the breast. We want the picture of the parties who design political institutions to build these facts in from the start.

Who is Martha Nussbaum?

700

This type of machine learning called RLHF for short uses human feedback.

What is reinforced learning with human feedback?

700

According to this kind of rational decision making, you want to make sure that you are doing the best even if you are in the worst situation.

What is Maximin reasoning?

700

This concept from Leopold Arnold's Land Ethic illustrates how the ecoystem is a hierarchical system with the soil at its foundation.

What is the land pyramid?

700

According to Savulescu et al., allowing athletes to use PEDs can make things safer for them especially if they have this type of condition that would require their use for medical purposes.

What are pre-existing health conditions?
800

There may be bumps, hurdles and obstacles, but as is the case with Cacioppo and Hawkley’s evolutionary theory, those bumps could be part of the learning process, the adaptation process. Part of the drive that forces us together.

Who is Matthew Shaer?

800

In large language models, each word or unit of meaning is assigned this mathematical object.

What is a vector/matrix.

800

On Rawls' second principle of justice, social and economic inequalities are allowed only when these conditions obtain.

What is when positions are open to all and the least advantaged are doing the best out of all alternative arrangements?

800

This environmental activist organization was the subject of controversy for stating protests involving throwing soup at famous artworks.

What is the Just Stop Oil organization?

800

The sages in the Fable of the Dragon Tyrant who argue that it is in our nature to be eaten by the dragon represent the view of this philosopher that we covered.

Who is Aristotle?

900

Any philosophical assessment of an alleged obligation to undertake nonviolent direct action that hopes to be relevant to the real world must therefore consider likely consequences. It cannot avoid assessing whether there may be a more effective alternative course of action.

Who is Rupert Read?

900

This parallelizable process allows words to provide "context" to one another. It is the basis for the "transformer" element of large langauge models.

What is attention?

900

This type of preference or desire is formed as a response to one's limited options rather than what one would actually want in better conditions.

What are adaptive preferences?

900

According to Leopold, obligations have no meaning without "this".

What is a "conscience"?

900

In Bostrom's Fable of the Dragon Tyrant, this amount of total economic output was directed towards dragon-related expenses (an analogy with what we spend on health care).

What is one seventh of the total economy?

1000

In the context of widespread genetic essentialism and fatalism, routine knowledge – not to mention selection – of individuals’ genetic predispositions risks a redefinition of selfhood and individuality.

Who are Lencz and Carmi?

1000

This process appeals to the chain rule in calclus and allows programmers to train a neural network by readjusting its weights and biases.

What is backpropagation?

1000
According to this approach to moral reasoning, we modify our general moral principles in light of our moral intuitions about specific cases and vice versa.

What is reflective equilibrium?

1000

This neighborhood in San Diego experiences significantly higher levels of pollutants and is located along the port and the Coronado Bridge.

What is Barrio Logan?

1000

The AMA recommends against the genetic testing of minors who could have severe adult diseases that have no cure because of this assumed right.

What is a "right not to know" or a right to an "open future"


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