I think the premise falls apart on the assumption that I consider pulling the lever as best case.
According to transit and transport regulation, such scenario would be impossible
Veritasium did a great video on the prisoners dilemma... What Game Theory Reveals about Life, The Universe, and Everything Prof. Robert Axelrod held a tournament in 1980 to produce a computer program to explore the prisoners dilemma... Axelrod's Tournament
And where are their arms and legs?
amputee representation. don't make it weird.
Goddamn it, Joker
Just kill them all
with a knife or whatever
Yell to the other lever dude that I'm not pulling the lever but fuck those beige dudes, hope they can't tell i'm lying, run and lay down with the beige dudes, and if I'm lucky they pull their lever too and we get maximum carnage. If lever dude suspects I'm lying and insane, and thus doesn't pull their lever, at least I won't have to answer my loved ones' questions.
The last line of these is always what the poster wants to happen
everything else is skewed rationale to make you think it is a funny
it is, in reality, anti-intellectual propaganda
I think most of these have just become self-satire and clever attempts to come up with increasingly convoluted ethical choices.
It's not anti-intellectualism, it's anti-trolly-problem specifically.
Jokes on you, No loved ones, so who cares if you pull the lever or not, go have a frothy instead.
There is no such thing as an "amount of people". It's "number of people". And the question given is basic game theory, just worded to be nasty.
I think it's "amount" after the trolley is done squishing them into goo
Yell "Jump!"
Please learn how to draw basic sketches of railway switches. It's not that hard.
Give the loved ones guns
As many frags as possible
Depends on the loved one, tbh 🤷🏼♂️
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
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