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Ionica Smeets (ionica@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 20:33:51 JST Ionica Smeets

The trolley problem: your imagination versus the even sadder reality. (Just got this from a friend who also collects trolley problem variants.)
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1. Above: how you imagine the trolley problem: an image with you at the switch Below: How it’s actually going to be: you on the rails with many people, and the person with the switch being paid by the person on the other track
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  Timmy O'Danaos (odanaos@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 03:13:22 JST Timmy O'Danaos
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  1. Sisyphus is rolling a boulder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accommodate him or his boulder. If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship. Is Sisyphus happy?
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