• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    At any point in time, a finite amount of time has passed, and the trolley has killed a finite amount of people. The correct track is the one that, at any given time, will have killed fewer people. Unless the trolley speeds up to account for that and always kills n people per second, the top track will result in less deaths over any period of time.

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      8 months ago

      The tram travels at light speed and so time no longer flows for you. You exist in a singular moment of splattergore.

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        8 months ago

        But even light speed is finite for the people on the track. It’s only the tram that stops experiencing time.

        Also, you’re not on the tram. You’re standing at the switch.

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      8 months ago

      All trolleys to date have been finite. A trolley which can kill an infinite number of people would truly be a marvel of engineering.

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        8 months ago

        Every finite trolley passes infinitely many points when moves, if you accept space as infinitly divisible (structured as the real numbers).

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      The train tracks are linear time on Earth. It’s basically the choice between letting people be killed or dying of old age.