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The answer is obvious. You need 2 trolleys to take both tracks.
MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING!!
Look at this genius here, optimizing the solution… 😂🤣
People = good
People = good
Why is that so hard to remember?
well, with 2 trolleys it is the same amount of suffering as with 1
I go for option 1.
In all programming languages that I know, integers have a maximum number. E.g., in C that’d be 2,147,483,647. After that, you would run into an overflow, resulting in either…
- a crash (train stops, no more deaths),
- death count suddenly turns negative (all people previously killed are suddenly alive again and even new people are generated out of nowhere) - until we reach the next overflow when people disappear and start dying again
- or - if it’s an unsigned integer - death count resets everytime we reach the maximum limit
So compared to option 2, we have a chance of stopping the death count. And even if the train keeps running, we have essentially option 2 but the same people only die very rarely. If we assume a cycle of 1 death per second and an integer boundary of 2,147,483,647, that’s just one death every 68 years per person involved. Seems more fair to me compared to 100 people constantly dying over and over again.
So the Zapp Brannigan approach?
Yeah okay but by that logic you’d also have to quantize time and the suffering would end either way in a finite amount of time.
I’d do top case since the number of people killed would converge to -1/12 meaning no suffering
I thought that was for the sum of all positive integers (1+2+3+…). The sum if ones converges to ½.
The abominable billionaire loop makes me happy
Isn’t Stockholm Syndrome fake?
No?
Actually upon looking it up, there is some suggestion that it is fake.
Where I’m from Calc 2 is integrals. That wasn’t so terrible. It was Calc 3 (vectors and series) that was the hard one.
I managed until university when I left calculus and entered “Linear Algebra” and man, I really don’t like matrices.
I made it through. My degree is actually in math. 15 years ago, I used to know what an abelian group is!
I found linear algebra super hard until I learned it a second and then third time, from different angles. I found it harder to understand when it was taught in a pure maths context, but coming at it from the applied side made me go “oh, so that’s why that’s like that”
I think the ones in the loop become Cenobites.
Hell couldn’t be real because humans would eventually fetishize any pain input and dump buckets forever.
Some webcomic I saw back in the earlier days of the Internet
Allegedly it isn’t a place where you are tortured, but instead a state of permanent depression from being cut off from God. Just the former is easier for pop culture to portray.
Well their heads aren’t on the tracks and they’re immortal, I bet we could rig some kind of device to make them total praplegics and then work on a direct neural interface so they can use computers while they lay there endlessly having their bodies painlessly trisected.
Or we could just like untie them
Programmer asks: how many bits for the integer?
At 32 bits it’s “just” a Thanos snap with extra pain
People really complaining about Calc 2?
