Dosen’t matters what you choose, given that for sisifus to reach his destination first he have to reach half, then half of it, then half again and again making movement impossible.
Existential trolley problem
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 years ago
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Ah, so the answer must be no.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Stands up and walks away
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“Hołd my limes!” - said Sisyphus
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
deaf_fish@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I think that is how I would be if on a ship.without a computer, going insane.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 2 years ago
… Millennial squats.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Yes, because he’s finally rolling the boulder down a hill.
nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
it says “towards” so not necessarily downhill
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years 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.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 2 years ago
affiliate@lemmy.world 2 years ago
you can always add an empty room without changing the total number of rooms, so there should be plenty of room for sisyphus and his boulder at the hotel
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 years ago
He did it. He beat philosophy, this is the question that we’ve been searching for.
hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 2 years ago
I can get him a room at the Hilbert Hotel, I know a guy.
Nougat@fedia.io 2 years ago
I know infinite guys.
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I know aleph-null guys. All in the same family. Parents were lazy and named all their kids after the positive integers. 42 is my best friend.
dumbass@leminal.space 2 years ago
Dude stfu, that was supposed to be between us!
StoicLime@lemm.ee 2 years ago
We won’t know until we open the box…
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Sisyphus is both happy and not happy, as long as we don’t ask. But the instant we ask, it’s one or the other
(surely someone already made this joke)
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I feel really sorry for the cleaning crew at the hotel
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 2 years ago
If he goes to the hotel, though, he will get to hear a great story from the owner of the hotel about a once beautiful but now decaying resort that includes a sweeping adventure involving a not-exactly-straight con man, an art theft that was not a theft, Willem Dafoe, and Tilda Swinton.
Etterra@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It depends on how much it costs to rent a room at the hotel. If it’s exorbitantly high, then the hotel can just be knocked down it’s no problem, you’re only going to risk endangering rich people and so that’s a victimless incident. The ship of Theseus on the other hand is most likely manned by ancient Greeks, who while not necessarily the best people by modern standards, are probably mostly poor or even slaves.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Right you are! So, how does this help us answer the question?
P.S. Sometimes I wonder how many people on here actually believe that human value is inversely proportional to wealth with no other factors. Repeat it enough times, even as a joke or hyperbole, and you start to believe it.
Nom@lemm.ee 2 years ago
When the math professor does philosophy questions.
Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 2 years ago
Won’t the boulder roll back to the intersection anyway?
No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 2 years ago
42
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sisyphus is rolling his boulder along a track toward the ship of theseus. It has had all its constituent parts removed and replaced and reconstructed along an alternate track. You may pull a lever and divert Sisyphus toward the reconstructed ship. How big of a dick would that make you toward the shipmaker?
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 years ago
He can’t go to the hotel because infinite cannot divided by zero, which is his boulder
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 years ago
Isn’t there a version of this with like 5 intersecting thought experiments?
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
I hate them all.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Not quite what you asked for but here: xkcd.com/1531/
Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 2 years ago
death to america
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
The real question is… will it take him more than a day to reach either one?
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Hell is other people
wieson@feddit.de 2 years ago
Someone’s read Sartre’s Huis Clos ( ´◡‿ゝ◡`)
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Decent game. 4/5
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
theseus can eat shit so fuck that nerd.
merari42@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Na, I am pretty sure that sysiphus sees tracks that are only the result of a shwadow play in a cave and you have to exit the cave to truly experience reality
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Are we even sure that Sisyphus can make it to either location? Because in order to reach a destination he must first make it to the halfway point, right? But to make it there, he’s gotta make it to that point’s halfway point, but before he gets there he need to…
DancingBear@midwest.social 2 years ago
He doesn’t actually have to make it there he just has to pull that lever with a force an omnipotent being would have trouble accomplishing
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Just make the lever longer.
xlash123@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Instead, let’s aim for double the end location. Then all he has to do is travel half that distance
Belgdore@lemm.ee 2 years ago
But he must first travel half the distance to that line, leaving us where we started.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It depends on whether Sisyphus has learned calculus.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I hear they only have pomegranates in hell. Neither calculus nor gravity for them!