SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND MORAL STUPIDITY

Stupidity and the Ouroboros Model

Since decades Artificial Intelligence is striving for an understanding and the production of general intelligence. In an attempt to put the relevant issues into a wider frame, the question shall be asked whether something could be learned from agents or situations characterized by an obvious lack of intelligence, i.e. “stupidity”. The Ouroboros Model is a novel proposal for a biologically inspi...

Psychopaths and Moral Knowledge

moral self-concept and moral sensitivity in iranian nurses

nurses are often faced with serious situations that require high levels of legal and ethical knowledge, and should therefore be sensitive to the moral issues in their profession in the decision making process. some studies have investigated nurses’ moral self-concept as an effective factor in moral sensitivity, but there is not sufficient evidence to support this. the purpose of this study was ...

Artificial Stupidity: A Reply

[1997] gave in the last issue of the Journal of Portfolio Management an account of how to raise a neural net's IQ. The purpose of this reply is to point out some of the general difficulties with neural nets. Also, I would like to mention an alternative method, namely Pade approximants, which does not suffer from these difficulties. Murphy, Koehler, and Fogler [1997] document that even approxima...

Moral Judgments and Self-Presentations

Meehan, Woll, and Abbott (Journal of Research in Personality, 1979, 13, 25-38) have shown that scores on Hogan's Survey of Ethical Attitudes (SEA) are affected by instructions to simulate politically liberal or conservative attitudes. They also found that scores are affected by instructions to present one's self in a socially desirable or undesirable light, and that group ratings of the social ...