• Wintar@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I guess it depends how far down it goes. Infinitely? Only enough for every person on the planet to be considered?
    Theoretically, the correct option is to always switch down. Which, according to the original problem, would be doing nothing. So… what if everyone just went home?
    Also to consider; The people (and track) gets smaller every time. Maybe it ends?

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        1 year ago

        Yep. There’s so, so few of those people, but they exist, and here that’s enough to make all the difference if it goes on for a very long time. If it doubles every time you run out of inhabitants of Earth after switch 32, though.