Monday, March 14, 2011

[ttkxwavl] Precious or cheap life

Descriptive: Sometimes people behave as if life is cheap: war.  Sometimes people behave as if life is precious.  Given the situation, predict which rule will be used.  Kind of a Turing-test computer program.

Normative: Determine which rule should be used in which situation to optimize what is "best for society" (knowingly a vague term, knowingly a difficult problem).

Where do the Descriptive and Normative behaviors diverge the most?

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