The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma

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• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  More challenging if there’s only one person on the middle tracks.

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• guest3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just kill them all

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  • guest3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    with a knife or whatever

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• antiykns@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And that’s why you should vote kamla.

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  According to transit and transport regulation, such scenario would be impossible

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• pyrflie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    why do we even have that lever?!

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• linkshulkdoingit69@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Goddamn it, Joker

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• aviationeast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And where are their arms and legs?

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  • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They didn’t keep them inside the car at all times.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    amputee representation. don’t make it weird.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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• EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • m_f@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it’s “amount” after the trolley is done squishing them into goo

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• azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As many frags as possible

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• DrDeadCrash@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yell “Jump!”

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• ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jokes on you, No loved ones, so who cares if you pull the lever or not, go have a frothy instead.

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• ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Depends on the loved one, tbh 🤷🏼‍♂️

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  :(

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Please learn how to draw basic sketches of railway switches. It’s not that hard.

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• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Give the loved ones guns

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• mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tit. For. Tat.

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• kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• xta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• 4oreman@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  easy pull both levers

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Philosphers really just go “imagine how fucked up it would be if…” and then take it incredibly seriously

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• SpaceScotsman@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Which loved one are we talking about here? Some are more loved than others.

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