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[–] guest3 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] guest3 3 points 1 hour ago

with a knife or whatever

[–] Thcdenton 2 points 2 hours ago
[–] Tudsamfa 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

This is only superficially a prisoner's dilemma. In a true one, you cannot get a better result for yourself no matter what the other person does, but here if you assume the other person pulled the lever, there is no reason to pull the lever yourself.

To fix this, you can have 4 relatives on the trolley, and 5 of the opposite faction way back on the middle track. Both do nothing, 1 relative of each is killed. One guy switches the lever, their relatives are all fine, other guy loses 5. Both switch, crash with all 8 relatives on the trolley dead.

[–] TargaryenTKE 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I see what you're trying to do and you're not necessarily wrong, but you're kinda perpetuating the attitude that inspired someone to make this meme in the first place

[–] Tudsamfa 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I follow. Should this meme's creator not have been inspired?

[–] TargaryenTKE 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Touche. But no, my point was more of a haphazard reflection on how both the Trolley Problem and Prisoner's Dilemma are (by design) built on the idea of reducing human life and/or morality and empathy down to a math problem. It is a method of thought that has its purposes, sure, but I think too many people make that their default setting, which makes dehumanization more commonsublllif subconsciously. Idk man, I'm going through some stuff

[–] postmateDumbass 3 points 2 hours ago

Given that this problem is given during corporate interviews ... it probably screens for the requisite level of sociopathy.

[–] postmateDumbass 9 points 5 hours ago

I ban trolleys. Everyone walks.

[–] Peck 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well obviously you should pull the lever once the front wheels past the split but before the rear wheels cross it, so that trolley gets off the rails. This way everybody has the chance to survive and you have defensible position during inevitable court hearing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How much did I like that one guy really.

[–] postmateDumbass 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Are the 5 people on the opposong trolley worthy of death? Will killing them outweigh losing my loved ones?

Or is the one loved one ill save my really hot 1st cousin?

Because with the rest of the family dead, we can live happily ever after without any annoying incest complaints.

[–] BluesF 5 points 4 hours ago

ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

If you think about this for any length of time and actually imagine this scenario, you realise you don't pull the lever and it's not even close.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wrong. You pick the obviously wrong moral stance and then aggressively yell about it on the internet. The more obvious it becomes that you are wrong, the louder you yell. This protects your ego from introspection.

[–] mynameisigglepiggle 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

SHUT UP. THE RIGHT CHOICE IS TO DROP A NUKE ON EVERYONE.

[–] postmateDumbass 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] kreskin 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

that right, I'd masturbate on the tracks and on the people tied to the tracks so they are slipery and can slide or bounce to safety. And before you judge me, its the only thing I'm really good at and we should make the most of what we have in life.

Failing that for whatever reason (or maybe in addition to that), I'd asses which of the prospects are lefties and make sure those people in particular live. Sorry centrists and republicans, but we need the votes and some people have to die, but I'm focussed on doing the least harm here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

But then your loved one (mom, dad, sister,child) dies.

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[–] mynameisigglepiggle 2 points 5 hours ago

Tit. For. Tat.

[–] RizzRustbolt 14 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Have these folks seen The Good Place? Or are they just approaching the same conclusion by accident?

[–] solstice 3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

By far the smartest show ever written and it's not even close!

[–] TargaryenTKE 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You need to watch more shows. Don't get me wrong, I like The Good Place and what they were trying to do with it, but yeah no there's a lot of other shows that are just as educational and well written that don't have to do a show-wide reset to start every season

[–] bananabenana 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao what. Sure it covers philosophy 101, but not as smart as say, Dark, Mr Robot, Better Call Saul, Watchmen etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Those shows are a good way to dip your toes into the subject before you start Rick and Morty.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Yell "Jump!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

The meaning behind the trolly problem has been entirely eroded at this point.

[–] Fedizen 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

mercifully pulling both levers.

[–] samus12345 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

But then how do you kill the remaining two people?

[–] Fedizen 6 points 6 hours ago

Survivor's guilt

[–] kreskin 1 points 5 hours ago

you find some third way thats not the bad outcomes that are suggested. Theres always possibilities in life and people who say there are not are generally trying to coerce you.

[–] xta 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

pull my gun, kill the other person and move the lever, as far i can know that person is the one this whole thing upfamily up

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

I think these scenarios might be easier to analyze if we made them a bit more realistic.

This an analogy for military intervention. If we empower our military to be proactive, we can save one "good guy"^TM^ by killing 3 bystanders. But if NATO's adversaries are participating too we lose 3 of our "good guy"^TM^

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I think the abstract nature is one of the strengths. If you ask someone a question about military intervention, their pre-existing views towards military intervention will heavily bias their answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah that's a good point. Maybe I should amend my statement to say something like:

If this seems like an absurd hypothetical, consider reframing it. Multiply all the numbers by a factor of between 1,000 to 1,000,000 and make them "our soldiers", "bystanders" and "enemy soldiers" respectively.

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