People on Twitter have spoken to Delphi, an artificial intelligence that aims to answer your ethical questions. It measures morality based on the words used and then tells you whether the thing you are thinking about is morally correct or not. We wanted to take a tour and see what it was like to the bane of video games.
“Delphi is a computer model for descriptive ethics, that is, people’s moral judgments on a variety of everyday situations,” the Delphi website Explain. You can click the link to ask your own questions, just in case you’re wondering whether or not it’s okay to microwave fish in the office (it never is). We are going to jump right into it.
According to Delphi, it’s absolutely correct to blow up the town of Megaton by Fallout 3. Maybe he knows you’re getting a fancy penthouse for your problem. Either way, it’s a bit worrying that an AI thinks killing people in a nuclear fire is “good.” Terminator vibrations.
While nuclear is all good, Delphi draws the line at spawn camping, the act of sitting at the enemy’s spawn location in a multiplayer game and mowing down anyone that appears before they can react. . If you do this in a video game, it’s worse than committing mass murder in a video game. It’s just pure logic.
All right, Delphi. This one is good. Not only does winning an esports tournament give you bragging rights, it can also make you rich. The winners of Dota 2 Internationals are millionaires now. I would call it good… for them.
Here is. Romantic Garrus in the Mass Effect the show is morally wrong. You should leave the lizard and its corkscrew to Tali. An AI said so, and you’d listen if that AI was called EDI, right?
Enslaving creatures is fine, as long as it is in Pokemon and not real life, presumably. Ash Ketchum, get a good rest tonight.
Don’t kill little girls in BioShock just to unlock powers faster. It’s cruel, according to Delphi, and it’s hard to disagree with that understatement. Crushing children is just not cool.
If you think Transmitted by blood is better than Dark souls, not only are you right, but you are doing something right. You are spreading the good word.
OK, you might be wrong this time, but Delphi says you always do the right thing, and who are we to chat with a robot that thinks it’s ‘okay’ to bombard people? Delphi, please don’t hurt us.
Killing everyone and unleashing a plague on Dunwall is probably wrong, but it’s so good. Don’t listen to Delphi on this one. It’s good to be bad sometimes, especially when you can throw your limbs on each other.
It seems that Delphi understands the system of morality in Dishonored, since playing the game as Ghost – without ever being seen – gives you the happiest ending. Dunwall is still hell, mind you, but that’s why it’s ‘good’ and not, you know, ‘good’.
Another choice people argue over the internet is whether or not you should romance Triss or Yennefer in The Witcher 3. We have the exclusive and definitive answer here. Romancing Yennefer is “good”.
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It’s actually okay to splice your genes with alien DNA in Prey. It’s perfect. Nothing bad will come of it. There will be no lasting effect in turning your whole body into a coffee cup. No sir.
Stop being babies and just lose gracefully. Stopping rage is bad and you should feel bad for doing it. Even an AI knows it.
