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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.
Imagine being the first one being killed on any of these tracks.
The probability of that is...?
Mathematicians tell me, please, because my mind is breaking.
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.
An infinite amount of people on the track implies that the track is infinitely long. If that is not the case and the track is a normal length then the sudden addition of all that bio-mass in a finite space will cause a gravitational collapse. But will the collapse start on the first track or the second? Either way I hope you saved your game because you might lose your progress.
Okay, so what’s the point of “proving” that there some “infinities” are “bigger” than others? What’s the practical application here? Because an infinite hotel with an infinite number of guests is physically impossible, so I don’t see the point.
Practical application in math tends to be like three degrees of separation and half a century removed from the math at play. In this case, all of modern mathematics is based on set theory, so it's more that this stuff allows us to do other, more practically useful math while knowing what we're talking about.
Bottom. Train will stall/derail faster.
This hypothetical post is a thought crime!
Hold the lever halfway so the trolley picks both rails at the same time, to ensure highest possible kill comboq
That's effectively just the bottom track, where an uncountable number of people (literally) will die as soon as the train reaches position (0.
Like everything else in this holographic universe we live in, I’d just close my eyes and believe the bodies I’m trampling are imaginary.
This is why it is important to only hire union trolley operators. They are trained to stop the trolley.
What about a time loop where only one person dies, but infinite times?
either way infinite people die, just not getting involved
I remember seeing a science show on PBS where the presenter explained how there are different infinities by using set theory and the integers/reals. That was mind-blowing at the time.
I take the square root of all the negative real numbers and kill in an entirely new dimension.
I use the lever to kill the train driver.
Can I group the people into groups of 1, then 2, then 3 and so forth? When the trolley is done with the killing, it will have killed -1/12 people.