论文标题
社会可以在没有道德代理的情况下运作吗？信息观点
Can Society Function Without Ethical Agents? An Informational Perspective
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论文摘要
通过具有特殊信息访问的个人的中介，例如执法人员，具有安全许可的官员或具有特定知识的专家。本文考虑了当信息便宜地操纵，依次生产的信息时，社会是否可以学习此类事实，并且这些人没有道德动机。答案取决于与可再现的科学证据与犯罪中产生的证据区分开的可用证据数量有关的“信息流失”条件。讨论了机构执法，社会凝聚力，科学进步和历史修正主义的应用。
Many facts are learned through the intermediation of individuals with special access to information, such as law enforcement officers, officials with a security clearance, or experts with specific knowledge. This paper considers whether societies can learn about such facts when information is cheap to manipulate, produced sequentially, and these individuals are devoid of ethical motive. The answer depends on an "information attrition" condition pertaining to the amount of evidence available which distinguishes, for example, between reproducible scientific evidence and the evidence generated in a crime. Applications to institution enforcement, social cohesion, scientific progress, and historical revisionism are discussed.
