• @KoboldCoterie
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    1 year ago

    If 33 people choose to double it, the entire world’s population will be laying on that track, and there’ll be nobody to pull the lever. In that case, assuming escape is impossible, we’ll have ended the human race.

    I say, let’s do it.

      • @KoboldCoterie
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        61 year ago

        There’s simply not enough people to fulfill the obligation without them - they’ll have to be recycled onto the next track, sorry!

        • @frobeniusnorm@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Well that is a good point, but this assumes that the lever were so organized that everyone would stand as close to each other as possible. If you would distribute levers and humans with a certain amount of distance the effect would be intensely weakened.

          • @KoboldCoterie
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            11 year ago

            I wonder what the optimal trolley track configuration would be to allow everyone to attend their lever while suffering as little disruption to their life as possible, and how much it would cost to build that, and how long it would take for the trolley to make the entire journey from start to finish…

      • alaphic
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        21 year ago

        Hasn’t anyone come up with a fix for that yet? No?

        Perhaps it’s finally time to unveil my… PRELIMINARY SOLUTION! 🧐

    • TWeaK
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      51 year ago

      The human population is less than 9 nibbles.

    • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      31 year ago

      It looks like the default case is going straight ahead rather than onto people, so if 33 people pass it on, no one does, right?

      • @KoboldCoterie
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        71 year ago

        Well, nobody dies to the trolly… but in that case, the entire human race is tied to the tracks. So assuming there’s no way to escape, we’re all still dead.