it is a pretty good thought experiment
this is a very brief thread about reasoning about the trolley problemhttps://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/950781620289753088 …
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whether or not it was originally created for this purpose it presently serves elegantly as an example of a style of reasoning that encourages us to find obvious flaws and level up our thinking
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the ability to sustain a meta-cognitive artsphere of memes is a good pointer to this attribute of the trolley problem
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original trolley problem is bad, trolley problem memes are good. every time a trolley meme is created it means someone leveled up and thought about how to express a more complex and interesting idea by co-opting a stupid idea
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this concludes my brief thread about a brief thread about a bad good thought experiment
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