Sublime

Many modern philosophers, however, have not accepted this view of ethics. They have thought that one should first define the good, and then say that our actions ought to be such as tend to realize the good. This point of view is more like that of Aristotle, who holds that happiness is the good.

A second, and equally serious, concern is whether—even if a predictive model measured exactly what it claimed to—we are in practice using it for its intended purpose, or for something else.

if your outcome behavior is not the result of any of the population’s motivations or the benefit of that behavior does not outweigh the cost to an alternative motivation, it is unethical.

Psychological egoism is a conspiracy theory of human motivation, and about as credible.

And what a person consciously intends to do says a lot about him. It makes sense to treat a man who enjoys murdering children differently from one who accidentally hit and killed a child with his car—because the conscious intentions of the former give us a lot of information about how he is likely to behave in the future.