Even if machines were able to perfectly mimic human moral judgments, we would know that the computer did not arrive at its judgments for the same reasons we would.
In its judgment at the end of a three-day session in The Hague, the Iran tribunal found that the Islamic regime had committed "gross human rights abuses" including torture, sexual violence, extra-judicial executions and unjust imprisonment.
My reflections on this point in A Question of Trust, 5.79, were reproduced by the Divisional Court at para 72 of its judgment.
The supreme court is expected to give its judgment at a later date.
An employment tribunal also amended its judgment at the last minute to rebuke government ministers, including the prime minister, for commenting on the highly controversial issue last week, while it was still sub judice.
It had given an adequate rating to the local council before revising and reversing its judgment at the time of media and political outrage over children being left unprotected.
On August 14, Justice Thomas W. Trenchard of the New Jersey Supreme Court upheld the ban, stating that "the court is not at liberty to substitute its judgment for that of the municipality's as to the best and most feasible manner of curing traffic evils and traffic congestion where such regulation bears a direct relationship to public safety and is reasonable and not arbitrary".
In the end, that sureness about her own judgment — at its extreme, a sense that she alone is wise — is probably Hillary's cardinal trait.
To which Schwartzman wryly replied, "Not then they weren't!" It was a moment of honesty and reassurance that recalled the film itself, which looks affectionately and without judgment at its characters and their needs, whatever they may be.
But even more troubling -- and on a very personal level as someone who has given 35 years of public service to Oregon -- is that so many of my former allies in common cause have been willing to simply accept this judgment at its face value".
But it's brainpower at its most dangerous -- divorced from judgment, wisdom, and reality.
