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LemmyLaLibre@feddit.ch to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 年前

I say double it.

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I say double it.

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LemmyLaLibre@feddit.ch to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 年前
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  • ghariksforge@lemmy.world
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    At some people you will run out of people to tie to the tracks.

    • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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      How many branches is that going to take? Just out of interest.

      • Magikjak@lemmy.world
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        Only 32

        • alerternate@lemmy.world
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          math checks out. log2(8 billion) ~= 32.9

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            It’s a little more complicated than that. You have to be summing everyone who is still tied to all the previous tracks. It needs to be a geometric sum formula.

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              You could just move them over whenever someone decides to double it up. That way the person that was going to die alone is doomed to die anyway. 😂

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                I wonder if we do stack it till every human is tied to the track whos at the lever?

                Does the train/AI decide?

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                  The current version of GPT is willing to sacrifice billions of robots for humanities sake. However, it proposed to strap alien civilizations to the track next. And in that case it would choose to save the larger group…

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              It’ll just be one fewer junctions. 2^n is always one more than the sum of 21+…2(n-1)

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                I think you have to include 2^0 for that to be true?

                e.g 2^0 = 1, 2^1 = 2 2^0 + 2^1 = 1 + 2 = 3, 2^2 = 4 … 7, 8 15,16 31, 32 etc.

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        2^33 is approximately 8.5 billion, which is roughly the population of the world.

        • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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          So the 32nd person decides to either kill half of humanity and end the scenario, or give someone the power to end human kind…

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            And then there are only 32 people who will live. Trolley doesn’t have a driver i imagine, they died of a heart attack or something.

          • ghariksforge@lemmy.world
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            🤣

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      Long before that, you’d run out of track to tie to the people.

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      A later choice of nobody on each track would be ideal. Even a psycho at the switch would be unable to kill.

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      I’d tie myself to the tracks tbh gotta end this cycle of suffering somehow 😩

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