Comment on Existential trolley problem

GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it says “towards” so not necessarily downhill

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  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not necessarily downhill, but the possibility of downhill is implied. Both of these locations would need to be infinitely high in order for the direction to be uphill.

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    • xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      AFAIK “infinitely up” is more plausible than “infinitely down”, as in most systems you would eventually hit a center-of-mass when going down.

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    • simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He could be coming in from underground though

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