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
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Ah, so the answer must be no.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Stands up and walks away
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Hołd my limes!” - said Sisyphus
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
deaf_fish@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I think that is how I would be if on a ship.without a computer, going insane.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
… Millennial squats.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yes, because he’s finally rolling the boulder down a hill.
nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
it says “towards” so not necessarily downhill
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months 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 11 months ago
affiliate@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
He did it. He beat philosophy, this is the question that we’ve been searching for.
hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I can get him a room at the Hilbert Hotel, I know a guy.
Nougat@fedia.io 11 months ago
I know infinite guys.
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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 11 months ago
Dude stfu, that was supposed to be between us!
StoicLime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
We won’t know until we open the box…
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months 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 11 months ago
I feel really sorry for the cleaning crew at the hotel
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
When the math professor does philosophy questions.
Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Won’t the boulder roll back to the intersection anyway?
No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 11 months ago
42
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
He can’t go to the hotel because infinite cannot divided by zero, which is his boulder
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Isn’t there a version of this with like 5 intersecting thought experiments?
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I hate them all.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Not quite what you asked for but here: xkcd.com/1531/
Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 11 months ago
death to america
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
The real question is… will it take him more than a day to reach either one?
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Hell is other people
wieson@feddit.de 11 months ago
Someone’s read Sartre’s Huis Clos ( ´◡‿ゝ◡`)
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Decent game. 4/5
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
theseus can eat shit so fuck that nerd.
merari42@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Just make the lever longer.
xlash123@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Instead, let’s aim for double the end location. Then all he has to do is travel half that distance
Belgdore@lemm.ee 11 months ago
But he must first travel half the distance to that line, leaving us where we started.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It depends on whether Sisyphus has learned calculus.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hear they only have pomegranates in hell. Neither calculus nor gravity for them!