One musta assume 100 reincarnating trolley people happy
The absurd is a result of the confrontation between human need and the unending screams of the victims being run over infinitely.
100 people hands down. Infinite people means infinite lives removed, infinite experiences etc. The 100 people will never truly die either, so if minimizing death is the goal, that’s best. It also is the choice that will happen without your input and those are usually better morally than actively changing and sentencing other people to death by yourself.
Minimizing death by replacing it with eternal torment is some evil genie shit.
I vote for fair distribution of suffering, instead of to just 100 people.
Why tho? Your choice is to condemn a few, versus kill more people than have died throughout all of history of humankind. 100 is a drop in a bucket compared to eternal genocide.
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It’s a communist thing. Fair distribution of wealth and suffering.
It’s a capitalist assumption to think people with less karma goes first.
Would you change your answer based on where you are on the tracks?
It really depends on the specifics of the top track. Are people added to the top track just in time to be run over by the trolley, or is the track pre-populated with an endless arrangement of people waiting to be run over.
If it’s the later case, how do people further down the track survive for an unbounded amount of time while waiting to be run over? Do they wait, bound and screaming for an eternity? How do they survive long enough to be alive before being run over?
I need to know if the top track reduces to running over an infinite arrangement of corpses. Or, if trolley time for the top track has some different meaning, such that the trolley brings an end to the finite life lived by each next person on the track.
For any randomly chosen person on an infinitely long track, the trolley will take an infinite amount of time to reach them. 0% of the people on the track are harmed at all.
Multi track drifting might be the solution in this case
Hmm, why are people so bad at teaching calc 2?
This isn’t even an isolated thing, I was a physics math double major and I’ve got into discussions with friends, and the overwhelming consensus was that calc 2 was the worst. Possibly because it’s where sequences and series show up, whereas calc 3 is just calc 1 but in more dimensions.
You can add me to the list of people that had a whole ass problem with calc 2. In addition to what you mentioned, my professor was the kind of guy who looked down on you if you didn’t know as much math as him and he had his doctorate in math. He laughed at people asking questions. His office hours was just him asking if you were too stupid to do math.
I don’t know where he is now but I sure hope he’s stepping on a LEGO brick every morning when he gets out of bed.
And also, why are so many people traumatized by calc 2 and not by ordinary differential equations and complex analysis?
See, the thing about the 1+1+1 is that they can’t all die at ONCE. Even moving at a reasonable clip, let’s say that trolley kills say, one person a second. Two people per second already die anyway, so yes, we’re increasing the mortality rate, but humanity can survive that, and statistically a lot of people wouldn’t end up dying by trolley. It would SUCK that there’s a chance you might wind up on the trolley and dead at any time, but dying is already a natural part of life and it happens to everyone at some point anyway, so there’s nothing inherently STRANGE about adding a trolley death every second.
The 100 reincarnating people will be suffering FOREVER, repeatedly, with no reprieve or redemption, and the real kicker is all the other people in the other lane are dying ANYWAY, just as people always have, so it’s not like you’ve really SAVED them - you’ve just not allowed the mortality rate to increase at the cost of eternal suffering for a few people. Doesn’t seem like a good trade.
It’s a more interesting question if we change it slightly and all of the infinite people are Wolverine, bub.
Spoilers for Deadpool and Wolverine.
!Just throw down an infinite number of Deadpools, one between each Wolverine, have them all join hands and blast Madonna. Trolley is defeated.!<
Everyone overlooking the rigorous maintenance required on the trolley. There will need to be several seamless swap outs each day with cleaning and engineering crews to keep the trolley, tracks, and grounds around running in a fulfilling order. And probably some ovens.
Killing everyone once ends all suffering. It’s only the reanimation that’s evil.
The 1+1+1… Track, because it’s objectively the better option. The trolley will not last forever, so the more moral option when facing two “infinite death” scenarios is the minimize the kills per second, and the top track is less densely packed.
Yeah, but the bottom ones reincarnate.
So of you go with the bottom one, everyone will survive
That’s… Much more sensible actually
In this exact scenario, I feel like the bottom track would slow the trolley down quicker, no? There is no room to stabilize, just pure flesh on wheel, 24/7. Not to mention the constant sharp turns, I think it would topple over long before the top one reaches its final kill count.
Seems like after the first time the infinite reincarnating ones get run over they should be released from their bindings and get off the track…
I can confirm you haven’t had it forever… Forever forever.
Is the sum 1 + 1 + 1… different than 1 + 2 + 3…?
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I pull the switch when the trolley is straddling the switching point, thus safely derailing the vehicle so it doesn’t kill anyone.
