Just kill them all
The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma
Submitted 6 months ago by m_f@midwest.social to [deleted]
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antiykns@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
And that’s why you should vote kamla.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 6 months ago
According to transit and transport regulation, such scenario would be impossible
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 6 months ago
The last line of these is always what the poster wants to happen
everything else is they fucked up rational to make you think it is funny
this is anti-intellectual propaganda
ameancow@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think most of these have just become self-satire and clever attempts to come up with increasingly convoluted ethical choices.
It’s not anti-intellectualism, it’s anti-trolly-problem specifically.
bitwaba@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My favorite version is:
A trolley is approaching a junction and you have the ability to leave the switch where it is, sending the trolley into an innocent person tied to the tracks, or pull the lever sending the trolley down the tracks to someone else that is now faced with the same trolley problem.
pyrflie@lemm.ee 6 months ago
[deleted]jdeath@lemm.ee 6 months ago
why do we even have that lever?!
linkshulkdoingit69@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
Goddamn it, Joker
aviationeast@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And where are their arms and legs?
ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
They didn’t keep them inside the car at all times.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
amputee representation. don’t make it weird.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yell to the other lever dude that I’m not pulling the lever but fuck those beige dudes, hope they can’t tell i’m lying, run and lay down with the beige dudes, and if I’m lucky they pull their lever too and we get maximum carnage. If lever dude suspects I’m lying and insane, and thus doesn’t pull their lever, at least I won’t have to answer my loved ones’ questions.
workerONE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What do I do? I introduced myself to the other person, then we go out for drinks, then we fuck all night.
I no longer give a shit about the assholes on the tracks.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
m_f@midwest.social 6 months ago
I think it’s “amount” after the trolley is done squishing them into goo
azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
As many frags as possible
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 6 months ago
Yell “Jump!”
ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Jokes on you, No loved ones, so who cares if you pull the lever or not, go have a frothy instead.
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 6 months ago
Depends on the loved one, tbh 🤷🏼♂️
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 6 months ago
:(
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 months ago
Please learn how to draw basic sketches of railway switches. It’s not that hard.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Give the loved ones guns
mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tit. For. Tat.
kreskin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
you find some third way thats not the bad outcomes that are suggested. Theres always possibilities in life and people who say there are not are generally trying to coerce you.
xta@lemmy.world 6 months ago
pull my gun, kill the other person and move the lever, as far i can know that person is the one that set me and my family up
4oreman@lemy.lol 6 months ago
easy pull both levers
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Philosphers really just go “imagine how fucked up it would be if…” and then take it incredibly seriously
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 6 months ago
looking at the junction points on that diagram only one side of the axle would change track if the switch was pulled resulting in a derailment so you could ignore the possibility of hitting the people in the middle thereby reducing this example to two parallel but unconnected trolley problems
i choose to kill whoever calls them trolleys and not trams
tonyn@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
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
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Which loved one are we talking about here? Some are more loved than others.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 6 months ago
More challenging if there’s only one person on the middle tracks.