To quote something I made up and say all the time, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.”
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Questions: why doesn't the person at the switch run and get the person off the tracks? And the people on the trolley hop off or try to the sslow the trolley?
They are tied to their chair with the only thing they can do being flipping the lever. It is the prisoner’s trolley problem
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Which loved one are we talking about here? Some are more loved than others.
Yell "Jump!"
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For some people, this is a problem. For others, this is a solution.
There is no such thing as an "amount of people". It's "number of people". And the question given is basic game theory, just worded to be nasty.
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Sounds like your typical game theory problem.
Not pulling the lever: Worst case: Your loved ones dies Best case: None
Pulling the lever: Worst case: Your loved ones dies Best case: Your loved ones survives
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According to transit and transport regulation, such scenario would be impossible
I think the premise falls apart on the assumption that I consider pulling the lever as best case.
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Nuke it from orbit.
👍 It's the only way to be sure
I would tie a really really long string to the lever and attach the string to a large bird and then scare it into flying away. Then I would eat some delicious Heinz Baked Beans
Veritasium did a great video on the prisoners dilemma... What Game Theory Reveals about Life, The Universe, and Everything Prof. Robert Axelrod held a tournament in 1980 to produce a computer program to explore the prisoners dilemma... Axelrod's Tournament
Goddamn it, Joker