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I made a page that gives you increasingly absurd trolley problems :) neal.fun/absurd-trolley

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cant believe they wouldnt ask for more smh

Neal Agarwal

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now I'm wondering what the distribution would be if he offered $10

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you can leave out the bit about people disagreeing with you anyway

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I honestly had a hard time making a decision on this one. First I thought 1 life for 1 life and I get richer (positive sum). However I realized it is the equivalent of killing someone for organ traffic, which is immoral. I did not put the lever.

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Or maybe how rich he was, because I think some people had the instinct to choose via "eat the rich" philosophy (fair). But if the question was just "if you run over one you inexplicably get $500,000" the answers would be different, I think.

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You can also run him over and then rifle through his pockets afterwards.

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If it was $10 people might be more inclined to accept because that seems like a less immoral amount of money somehow. Like, $500,000 seems very Serious but if it's like "you will run over the same amount of people but also can buy yourself a snack afterwards" it feels Ok

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No way I am killing someone for $10

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I wonder what it would be if the rich man offered all of his money and property.

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You should put it with different values

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Please do add various rewards options and randomise them. With 600k observations you are going to have a pretty good experimental paper despite the convenience sample.

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Or $0 - is it because he is "a rich man" that more people choose to kill him, or because he is offering money?

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