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@LemmyLaLibre@feddit.ch to Memes@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

I say double it.

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I say double it.

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@LemmyLaLibre@feddit.ch to Memes@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
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  • @ghariksforge@lemmy.world
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    44•2 years ago

    At some people you will run out of people to tie to the tracks.

    • @Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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      12•2 years ago

      How many branches is that going to take? Just out of interest.

      • @Magikjak@lemmy.world
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        46•2 years ago

        Only 32

        • @alerternate@lemmy.world
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          26•2 years ago

          math checks out. log2(8 billion) ~= 32.9

          • @ghariksforge@lemmy.world
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            11•2 years ago

            It’s a little more complicated than that. You have to be summing everyone who is still tied to all the previous tracks. It needs to be a geometric sum formula.

            • @RatMaster@sh.itjust.works
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              11•2 years ago

              You could just move them over whenever someone decides to double it up. That way the person that was going to die alone is doomed to die anyway. 😂

              • @Patawagon@lemmy.world
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                4•2 years ago

                I wonder if we do stack it till every human is tied to the track whos at the lever?

                Does the train/AI decide?

                • @fneu@discuss.tchncs.de
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                  3•2 years ago

                  The current version of GPT is willing to sacrifice billions of robots for humanities sake. However, it proposed to strap alien civilizations to the track next. And in that case it would choose to save the larger group…

            • Sabazius
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              It’ll just be one fewer junctions. 2^n is always one more than the sum of 21+…2(n-1)

              • @Magikjak@lemmy.world
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                1•2 years ago

                I think you have to include 2^0 for that to be true?

                e.g 2^0 = 1, 2^1 = 2 2^0 + 2^1 = 1 + 2 = 3, 2^2 = 4 … 7, 8 15,16 31, 32 etc.

      • @ghariksforge@lemmy.world
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        2^33 is approximately 8.5 billion, which is roughly the population of the world.

        • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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          5•2 years ago

          So the 32nd person decides to either kill half of humanity and end the scenario, or give someone the power to end human kind…

          • @feck_it@sh.itjust.works
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            3•2 years ago

            And then there are only 32 people who will live. Trolley doesn’t have a driver i imagine, they died of a heart attack or something.

          • @ghariksforge@lemmy.world
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            1•2 years ago

            🤣

    • @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml
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      4•2 years ago

      Long before that, you’d run out of track to tie to the people.

    • @atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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      1•2 years ago

      A later choice of nobody on each track would be ideal. Even a psycho at the switch would be unable to kill.

    • @ShootBANGdang@sh.itjust.works
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      1•2 years ago

      I’d tie myself to the tracks tbh gotta end this cycle of suffering somehow 😩

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