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MindTGap

@catsalad "get out mah waaaayyyyy" WHOOO WHOOO!!! πŸš†

Breizh

@catsalad But it's going the wrong way, because a drift is made with the front facing inwards, not outwards…

Altytwo Altryness, BS :verified:

@catsalad when there are more than two tracks, does that show it to be… a false binary? =D

𝙉 π™Š 𝙍 π™ˆ 𝙄 𝙀

@catsalad same kind of bad trolley behaviour that got you banned from the supermarket πŸ›’ πŸ™…πŸΌ

no wonder your pic is sideways

Carl Winberg

@catsalad I've worked in Film/TV for a couple of decades. Hitting the mesmerising/traumatising sweet for 20 seconds is amazing. This is stupefying.

Jim. From Kansas

@catsalad Ah, the Santa Fe's Suuuuuuuuuuuuuper Chief.

MissConstrue

@catsalad Train drifting! How did the Fast and Furious franchise miss this idea? It’s brilliant. πŸ₯³

Baloo Uriza

@catsalad I like how that locomotive is so insanely common that someone could kitbash three of these together and not even think anything of it.

Dixie Philon

@StephenTallentyre @catsalad

Train in the video: I want 2(infinite) people dead.

Jeff Grigg

@PhDee @StephenTallentyre @catsalad

I'm also for "slipping the switch," as shown in the video.

But I expect that with the tracks diverging, as shown in the image above, it can't be long before a forced derailment.

kolektiva.social/@sidereal/111

Bornach

@nazokiyoubinbou @StephenTallentyre @catsalad
I bet there's one where the tracks are fractals and your best strategy is switching to the track with higher fractal dimension

essjax

@StephenTallentyre @catsalad I've tried to follow this but somewhere around the last few words my brain goes

Lynn Grant

@StephenTallentyre @catsalad I like this!

I believe, though that the solution to the trolley problem doesn’t involve flipping the switch, which is probably locked anyway (or, if it is an old interlocking system, is controlled remotely).

The solution is to stand in the middle of the tracks. The trolley driver will slam on the brakes. Just before the trolley would hit you, you jump off the tracks. The trolley is now going slowly enough to stop before running over anybody.

Retro Goth Bunny

@StephenTallentyre So you're saying we should do multi-track drifting to get the largest infinity of kills?

vince

@StephenTallentyre @catsalad @jripley since ℝ contains β„€, would multi-track drifting run over more than or the same amount as taking only the bottom track? πŸ€”

Stephen G. Tallentyre

@0x56 @catsalad @jripley

I don't understand set theory, lol. Is this one of those "Does the set of all sets that do not contain themselves, contain itself?" type questions, or…?

Josh

@StephenTallentyre @catsalad I know it's not the point, but - send it down the one with bigger gaps between people so they are run over more slowly, so if anyone in future works out how to stop the infinite hell railway fewer people will have succumbed πŸ™‚

Tom Ritchford

@StephenTallentyre @catsalad If the picture is "as shown", then pulling the lever is correct.

On the left hand side, if the trolley travels any finite distance, it will kill infinitely many people.

__Miguel_

@StephenTallentyre @catsalad Lock the lever in the midway position, causing the tram to derail :P

CubeOfCheese

@catsalad that's sick. Train's smooth with it

Eragon

@catsalad This is my dream rail model track.

Marge Wu ε΄ι™ηŽ«
@catsalad This will be in my head for weeks, possibly months.
Dieu

@catsalad that's right. Always maximise.

seism0saurus πŸ¦•

@catsalad

πŸ˜„You solved all trolley problems πŸŽ‰

Ghoti

@catsalad This is exactly the kind of problem solving we need! I was looking for an example of something that represented a way out of black-and-white thinking and catastrophizing.

Andreas Albrecht

@catsalad Great! I thought the trolley problem had only two solutions. From now on I'll opt for the third!

Andreas Albrecht

@akmur @catsalad As far as I know, in the original trolley problem, it's a cargo wagon.

In the variant with a commuter train, the possible solutions are:
1) do nothing - three rabbits and everybody in the commuter train dies
2) switch rails - one rabbit and everybody in the commuter train dies
3) make the train derail - possibly everybody in the commuter train dies - but no rabbit gets injured

Some take 3) - least number of total deaths.

I take 3) b/c it's creative & not hurting animals. 🀣

@akmur @catsalad As far as I know, in the original trolley problem, it's a cargo wagon.

In the variant with a commuter train, the possible solutions are:
1) do nothing - three rabbits and everybody in the commuter train dies
2) switch rails - one rabbit and everybody in the commuter train dies
3) make the train derail - possibly everybody in the commuter train dies - but no rabbit gets injured

Molytov :donor:

@catsalad Make sure to build up speed beforehand so you can take all of them out

Melissa Techman

@catsalad I like Miffy so much more now than when I had to read the books to my son!

Fritz Adalis

@catsalad
They tried this in East Palestine, Ohio and look how that turned out.

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