Module 2

Topics

Morality, Moral Philosophy, Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Game Theory, Complexity

Guiding Questions

• What’s morality? What’s ethics?
• Where does morality come from?
• What’s the difference between morality and ethics?
• How do you know when something is wrong?
• Have you ever had to make an ethical decision? How did it go? How did you choose?
• Moral Foundations
• Understand deontology, virtue ethics, utilitarianism
• Understand limitations of different approaches to ethics
• Talk about Population Ethics
• After introducing utility, introduce Game Theory with:
  • the Prisoner’s Dilemma
  • the Tragedy of the Commons
  • the Repugnant Conclusion
  • Arms races
    • Nuclear arms race
    • AI arms race
  • other Multipolar traps