2016年9月29日 星期四

Moral Standard

Moral standard seems to be something far away from the business world. Hey, the fundamental of business is profit and loss. Moral or ethics or corporate responsibility will have no effect on the stock price of a company unless it will reduce the brand value. However, from a paragraph I read today, seems it may not be the case in certain situation. Moral standard become one of the key elements to overcome in order to be successful. 

Tesla, which is the leader of electric auto market, has provided their car with auto pilot functionality. I don't know how auto can it be. However, from a TV episode of Korea, seems the car can really drive on its own. In order to show his passionated love to his girlfriend, the actor switched the car into auto pilot in a busy road in order to free his arms to hold and kiss her. You can imagine there must be a very intelligence computer program which detect all the circumstances of the road and determine how it should react. That will trigger another question about that program. In an emergency situation, let's say, in that situation, some people have to be hurt or even died, how should the program choose? Should we consider if he is innocent? Should we consider if it is smaller group? Should we consider the value of the property damaged? What if we can't put a price tag on the good?

The worst part of these question is that there is no right answer. In other word, the right answer is different for different people. Actually, should we consider that our legal system have the same question to answer? What the judge expect the reasonable man to do in such situation? As long as there is no fault or malice on his own, he should let go free on anything happen. Of course, it is reasonable for him to save his own life by scarified the others. Follow the logic, we should have a program setup to scarify anyone life in order to save the driver or passenger. 

However, if it is really the case, will there be any reasonable government bodies which let such car operate in any roads of their country?

 

2014年12月14日 星期日

一生的目标

今天看了一代宗师。这已是我第二次看,第一次看我着迷在中间的对打,很有艺术感,一进一退都有后着,都包含了后几步的变化,不会只是打不死那种。
今次再看,有一个不太有关的想法浮现。
叶问在日本打中国的时候,获得日本人的
欣赏,但他就不认为他要为了食而作汉奸。表面是中国人的节操。但另外也看出,武术才是他最在乎的东东,其他一切都不重要。
扩展在我们的生活来说,我们其实也不需要计划什么。我们应在乎的应是我们在那个时候,是已经做到那时候最好了吗?我们可能一开始不是最好,也没有很好的物质,但根本就不重要,因为,你只是想有一身好的武功。而你有没有什么钱,很好的屋子,都没有问题。你也不会因为那不开心。所以你也不需要特别去储钱,因为钱是你在某一刻的限制,有钱跟没钱的分别只是那个限制的标准不一样。

我也要找我醉心去做的一件事。