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[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
  1. I lay some extra track so the train runs over the perverts that come up with these "dilemmas" instead. Problem solved. 👍
[-] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 8 points 2 days ago

Considering that there's a small but non zero chance of surviving getting ran over by a train some of them are gonna survive this and since there are infinite people that will result in infinite train-proof people spawning machine

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

Multilane drifting!

[-] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

you know, I'm not sure you can have an uncountably infinite number of people. so whatever that abomination is I'll send the trolley down its way. it's probably an SCP.

[-] LadyAutumn 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In the top case has it been arbitrarily decided to include space in between the would-be victims? Or is the top a like number line comparison to the bottom? Because if thats the case it becomes relevant if there is one body for every real number unit of distance. (One body at 0.1 meter, and at 0.01 meter, at 0.001, etc)

If so then there's an infinite amount of victims on the first planck length of the bottom track. An infinite number of victims would contain every possible victim. Every single possible person on the first plank length. So on the next planck length would be every possible person again.

Which would mean that the bottom track is actually choosing a universe of perpetual endless suffering and death for every single possible person. The top track would eventually cause infinite suffering but it would take infinite time to get there. The bottom track starts at infinite suffering and extends infinitely in this manner. Every possible version of every possible person dying, forever.

[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Actually... this means there are infinite people so:

Let X be the number of people killed = (-infinity)

As infity is defined :

infinity + X = infinity

infinity + (-infinity) =

infinity - infinity = infinty

So no people would have died black guy pointing at his head meme

[-] sem 1 points 1 day ago

Desnt work when they're different classes of infinity.

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Bottom. Greater probability that it gets stuck in the corpses.

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

like the infinite monkeys with typewritters, universal limits to the rescue. Trolley's are slow. Each bump makes them slower. Some of the people in the discrete line will have long lives until an excruciatingly painful death from dehydration.

[-] _AutumnMoon_ 3 points 2 days ago

either way infinite people die, just not getting involved

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bottom. Train will stall/derail faster.

[-] p3n@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I do what I always do: run to the trolley, then jump up and pull the emergency stop because I hate false dilemmas.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Correct, because if we ignore some important facts you could also have infinite time to stop the trolley. Checkmate, false dilemma creators.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

I masturbate until I forget about the decision I have to make and then put off cleaning my apartment until I finally just run out, randomly pull the lever, and never think of the consequences again.

Of course by that point everyone has already starved to death which is the worst possible outcome.

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