This image implies that a decision tree could be made that is large enough to replicate the physical transistors, simplified as switches, as an abstraction of a reasonable processor, to determine how many people would die if you played DOOM.
They could do it with 5 billion crabs. So I’d say around that number.
Infinite people will die, the only difference is the ratio of how many people will suffer from the trauma of making that decision versus the people that died on the track…
But at any given time, more people will be dead on the right hand track versus the left.
Welcome to infinity, where the limits (in the mathematical sense) are fake and nothing makes sense. You can both prove that the number of dead people is the same in all cases and that at any given point the leftmost track has killed five times as many people as the rightmost track.
This is why I’m a finitist.
Nooo it all makes sense as long as you follow the rules :)
Next let’s consider the following tracks:
----- ... -|---- / o ---||| ... |||---So the top track has 1 victim, the bottom has infinitely many. Now repeat them both infinitely many times. Do the two tracks have the same number of victims? Well in one way yes (both are infinite) but in another way no. Because the first victim in the first repeat of the bottom track had infinitely many victims before them, whereas there is no victim in the repeated top track that had infinitely many victims before them.
In mathematical terms, the cardinality of the victims is the same (there are “as many”) but the order type is not. (This is unlike OP’s example, where after infinitely many repetitions, the order type is the same)
What we’re seeing here is a quantum superposition of every outcome, so the people making the choice have to live with the horror of every choice they could make, perhaps unaware of the illusory nature of that choice. Also it seems the people strapped to the track are being constantly regenerated so they can relive the pain and terror endlessly. It’s the ultimate exercise in futility.
Yes.
Keep mitigating damage for as long as you have to.
I’ve always considered this an unsolvable problem but your image just inspired me.
If I leave one of the final levers in an intermediate position, is there any chance the trolley derails and not only gets the people on both tracks but also most of the ppl inside it & makes the next trolleys collide? I’m going for a max score here.
Oh hey it’s Michael!
Have you considered multi track drifting?
holy shit, I think you just cracked it.
