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  • KidsTryThisAtHome@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzSleeping Beauty Trolley Problem
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    11 months ago

    I’m pretty sure it’s a 5/6 chance you’d be on side A, and a 1/6 chance you are on side B, depending on what the villain rolls with the die. But the problem is there’s no way to know which track the trolley is on, or where the real lever sends it. You’d just as easily be killing yourself as you would be yourself and 9 other people.

    So there’s a very good chance you’re by yourself on the track (or a small chance you’re with other people), but you have literally no idea what pushing the lever with your foot will do, even if it is the real one, and you have no idea if the trolley is even on your track or not.

    There is no solution to this without more information. You can’t be selfish or utilitarian if it comes down to a 50/50 guess.

    That said, we can probably assume the trolley will continue down the main track unless the real lever is flipped. So at that point, the questions turn into math problems and probability. There’s a 5/6 chance that pushing the lever will kill yourself. There’s a 1/6 chance that pushing the lever will have a 10% chance of saving you and 9 other people. Mathematically, it simply makes sense not to push the lever.

    So, do you push the lever because there’s a 0.017% chance you’re saving 10 people (including yourself), but if you’re wrong you’re killing yourself and saving no one? Or do you avoid pushing it because it’s 83% likely you’d only be killing yourself with no one on the other track, knowing if you’re wrong your inaction will kill 10 people?

    It’s not really a trolley problem, because in both scenarios a track is empty, but more of a gamble with math, because you cannot know what pushing the lever will do until it’s done, but mathematically NOT pushing the lever has a 83% chance of killing NO ONE.

    Tl;Dr, this REALLY needs reworded, because it’s not a trolley problem, it’s a math problem.



  • I feel like I’m in the minority when I say I was REALLY bored during this most recent season. The jokes just did not land, they tried too hard and tried to be meta too often. Also a lot of the jokes are making fun of modern things, as opposed to what it used to be, which was an exaggerated take on what the future could be. It also just seemed like a lot of the episodes were most “remember this episode from an earlier season? Well we’re doing it again but slightly different!”

    I wish John DiMaggio had stuck to his guns.