@pl @ElleGray Do you mean you get a solution as the leader and his cult are on one track and the people on the other, so whoever is killed the outcome is repeated? I mean if the leader and his cult are killed, the people replace them, and if the people are killed eventually the leader and his cult breed enough to get them back. #TheTrolleyProblem
The trolley problem, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the television series “The Good Place”, and allegory and literature as thought experiments

This morning, on my way to teaching a session on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (1948), I passed a classroom where I spotted a slide from a...

@KO6YQ
This would appear to imply a common origin of both the #CollatzConjecture and #TheTrolleyProblem . Someone should apply for a research grant to look into it.
#maths #logic #silliness #XKCD

#BTW: #IF you're #StillStruggling with #TheTrolleyProblem...

#Ripley's already #GotThisCovered...

#TheTrolleyProblem is #Solved | #YouAreWelcome

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🪐🦹🚀🦄🚀🦹🪐

i realize that the #theTrolleyProblem is a real-live serious issue in #philosophy circles, but here’s my question: HOW MANY OF US LEARNED ABOUT IT FROM ”THE GOOD PLACE”?

I’ll take my answers in the gazebo. eating corn dogs.

i taught an AI to solve the trolley problem

YouTube

Just solved #TheTrolleyProblem.

No trolley, no problem.

#thenordicexperiment #stockholm