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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I leave it at whatever it was set at before I arrived. Why mess with destiny?

[–] RobertOwnageJunior 3 points 9 months ago

I quickly carry the people to the other side so they all can get run over.

[–] repungnant_canary 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I actually would like to choose the track where the number of people increases by one (so 1, 2, 3, 4...) and then the train will kill -1/12 people

PS Yes, I know this sum result is problematic, it's only a joke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

build new tracks to make the trolley run on (possibly in circles).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Pull the lever. Save as many lives as you can and hope that someone that now wasn't killed as fast can help come up with a solution for the runaway trolley.

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

I would take a sledgehammer and smash the trolley to bits, thus solving the problem and saving infinite number of lives. There's always another option available.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Except that the trolley is an Unstoppable Object.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Since there's an infinite number of people to kill in either case I can just do nothing, and thus by inaction most of those infinite people will have more than enough time for someone else to rescue them. Maybe the State, that's what they're there for.

[–] Wilzax 2 points 10 months ago

The existence of the bottom track would imply an infinite density of people, which would create a black hole and kill everyone involved, regardless of the trolley's presence

[–] SasquatchBanana 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I have a tangential question I have been wanted an explanation for:

If there are infinite universes, would there be infinite earth's?

I remember (an) answer is infinite universes doesn't necessarily mean infinite earth's. A cool analogy of a CD rack was used when I read it, but I can't find it. Does anyone else have an explanation and/or analogy for this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Weirdly good timing, here's a Kurzgesagt video on that exact question! Uploaded literally yesterday (or yester-er-day depending on time zones)

https://youtu.be/isdLel273rQ

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Probably pull the leaver cuz then I can jump in front of the train.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Do nothing - maximum destruction

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Slip the switch, like always

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@tedu @science_memes @fossilesque Can we space them out so the frequency is the same? 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Was this an honest question? Because the answer is 'no'. You can't space them out or else the set of people on the lower track would be countable which is a smaller infinity than the ones of the real numbers.

To space them, you would have to take people of the track. Infinitely many. To be precise not all of them but as many as there are on the track.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes. Right under trolley. Will derail it.

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