@ungeometer any thoughts?
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if they are an infinite distance away, they're not going to die, right?
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It's a finite distance, but if you guess any distance it's larger than that...
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Then I just gotta keep guessing once in a while and everyone lives!
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you'll have to guess infinitely many times though
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Not if transhumanism fails to save my decaying meatsack! Then it's not my problem anymore! It will be a sacred ritual passed down through generations to excavate and proclaim larger and larger numbers, descending slowly into the madness of zeros...
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I basically don't like trolley problems and am trying to slyly turn them into infinity thought experiments hehe
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I don't like infinity thought experiments and am trying to slyly turn them into cultism lol
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Gosh if only mathematicians had a means of expressing limits we could use them in systems theory and design.
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Kill the ones who die now so I get to watch
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honest answer appreciated lol
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Okay but real shit if it kills an infinite number of people that has to include me, anyone I care about and all our descendants right? I mean it can’t be an infinite quantity if I could go “Yeah but if I was in that group it would be bigger”
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no, there are infinitely many even numbers, but if you "killed" them all, there is still an infinite number of odds left over
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It's really tempting to deny the hypothetical and say the indefinably large distance because it gives us time to work out how to stop the magic trolley. I'm stumped tbh, but I wonder if any trolley problem truly tells us about morality when part of morality is trust in claims.
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Sounds related to climate change: Kill some jobs now to save humanity or decide to wipe humanity and all the rest from the face of the earth an indefinably long time from now (which is anyway getting shorter by the day)? :P
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Always choose certainty.
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option 1 implies an infinite number of humans get to live (at least until they're killed) so it seems like the prudent consequentialist option
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Out of sight, out of mind. Option 1, but 2 is okay as well I suppose.
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