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  • Fat Tony@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get it. What is the downside of pulling the lever? It’s if you don’t pull you die. If you do, you may not die.

    It’s not like anyone else is laid on the other side of the tracks in either scenario so what’s even the dilemma here?

    Also how are the dice relevant?

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      1 year ago

      You are on the side track in scenario A. You die if you pull. Ironically, you’d be killing yourself. The dice are to make the two scenarios not equally likely.

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          1 year ago

          there’s no way to know which track the trolley is on

          It’s a standard trolley meme problem, the trolley will keep going on the main track unless the lever is switched 😁. I thought !science_memes would be familiar with trolley problems, but I guess I get to introduce some of you! You might want to start off on some easier trolley memes first, this is advanced level stuff.

          where the real lever sends it

          There is not usually ambiguity with the lever. If you wish, you can have an announcement in the headphones “main trackside track…” every time you flip the lever. Your only uncertainty is which track you yourself are bound to, given how you’re blindfolded.

          there’s a 0.017% chance

          1/6 * 10% = 1/60 = 0.01666… = 1.666…% ~= 1.7%! Careful there!

          It’s not really a trolley problem, because in both scenarios a track is empty,

          Everything is a trolley problem.