Sunk cost fallacy, just pull it on one person instead of doubling the potential deaths and giving up control over when it will happen.
I say let it go for 33 doublings (2^33 people), and then decide.
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Kill 1 person. I feel it would be cowardly to pass the buck and risk killing 2.
Lest they do the same and kill 4, etc.
But what happens when you get to, say, the 34th person, and there are 2^33 people tied up, more than there are living humans in the world? Pass the buck, break the simulation, save the world
I’ve never been much of a gambler. I’ll stick with my one kill.
Welcome to climate policy.
That implies that if nobody tries to stop climate change, it’ll never destroy the world.
Perhaps it roughly analogizes to Zeno’s Paradox.
I’d try to talk to the person on the track to see if they were an asshole and decide from there.
If I must kill 1 person or cause even more death, I suppose I’d kill the person responsible for this scenario.
Right is the boomer way.
So how does that killing thing work, doing it by yourself or just thinking and the person dies?
I think with this scenario it’s indirectly caused by you. Either you ‘press a button,’ directly resulting in the death of a specific individual, or another person is given the same scenario but the button directly causes double the number of deaths if they press it.
Guess the kill one person thing isn’t that bad then. There are quite some people doing major bullshit right now…
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Throw the switch to pass and then sprint ahead 31 spots so I can kill 4 billion people like Thanos.
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Also interesting: What would you choose here if you were an evil psychopath? (Asking for an acquaintance.)
Switch the track from the bottom to the top as the train is half way over the switch, causing the train to drift across both rails hitting all three tied up people and the second switch operator.
MULTI TRACK DRIFTING??!!!
Electrifying the tracks.
Depends on if you’re happy with someone else killing lot more people, or if you want to kill someone yourself.
Assuming this goes to infinity, the reasonable thing to do is to kill one person to prevent someone else killing a lot of people. But that would make you directly responsible for killing that person.
Isn’t redirecting making you directly responsible for minimum of 2 deaths?
No, that’s someone else’s choice to kill.
Not the person who you were talking to but I don’t think i will feel responsible if conductor after me decides to kill bunch of people with a trolley. And i wouldn’t be responsible if i saved people by not getting them gored by some trolley.
You’d be indirectly responsible for those deaths.
Fair enough
I think everyone here is missing the real answer. If you look at the picture you will notice a third option, there are track switches, two of them, you can bypass the people tied to the track, then kill the monster forcing you to kill for no reason.
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