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„I pull this lever and suddenly it’s not my problem anymore“

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Damn. That’s the politician way of thinking!!!

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If we keep doubling, will I eventually be a person on the tracks? There are a finite number of people, so eventually I would be, right? So, passing the buck would be equivalent to handing my fate to a stranger.

OTOH, if there are an infinite number of people, then this thought experiment is creating people out of thin air. Do these imaginary people’s rhetorical lives even matter?

Either way, it seems better to kill 1 person at the start.

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If it creates infinite number of people, it could solve world hunger with some good ol’ Soylent green thinking. Although you might want to figure out how to slow down the trolley at some point.

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What is the base case for this?

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Choosing the second option will trap an infinite people for eternity in this problem, because it would never stop

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Oh I promise you it’ll stop, just with a greater death toll. It probably wouldn’t take that long to stop either.

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You should only be released once someone decides to let all of their track people die.

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