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[–] ghariksforge 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Magikjak 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] alerternate 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ghariksforge 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sabazius 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It'll just be one fewer junctions. 2^n is always one more than the sum of 2^1+...2^(n-1)

[–] Magikjak 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Does the train/AI decide?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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…

[–] ghariksforge 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

2^33 is approximately 8.5 billion, which is roughly the population of the world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ghariksforge 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

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