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CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 20 hours agoAnd yet there can never, and will never, be a situation where an infinite number of people are tied to a railroad track. So this thought experiment is meaningless.
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CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 20 hours agoAnd yet there can never, and will never, be a situation where an infinite number of people are tied to a railroad track. So this thought experiment is meaningless.
bstix@feddit.dk 4 hours ago
It’s more about set theory than the actual numbers.
Let’s say you have 100 people with everyone tied up across both tracks. Heads on one track and legs on the other. Let’s assume they die if the train touches any part of them, but you still need to choose bet running over heads or legs.
The best choice is then legs, because there’s a probability of some of them being handicapped and not having legs.