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@dramypsyd LOL by the time you're on that trolley you've clearly been going along with some pretty f*d up sh*t for quite a while. You don't just build an entire murder-trolley-system without some help. @whatzaname Ok now this is a great metaphor for the world as it is now because I'm constantly like "why are these even the options" and "how did we get here" @dramypsyd i was an older college student and did a philosophy minor, and at the time it felt like just me who found the trolley problem to be a distraction from the obvious. No one just wakes up the driver of an out of control trolley, we should have always been trying to dismantle that faulty trolley and improve the safety of the tracks   I know this shouldn't be the key takeaway here but I can't move on beyond those rail switches being drawn incorrectly (the one rail... has to ... cross.. the oth- oh Ill see myself out.)   @tezoatlipoca @dramypsyd  @dramypsyd  @dramypsyd I'd just blow up the tracks, b/c the disrailment would probably result in fewer fatalities.  @rickf @rickf @blaue_Fledermaus Hey maybe you do carry explosives everywhere in this alternate reality where your loved ones are thrown into trollies In a truly alternate theoretical universe I would Jedi mindtrick the f--ck out of the trolleys and everyone would be saved.  @dramypsyd @tezoatlipoca The regular trolley problem has already been solved, and that solution works here. Fortunately, this problem was stated as something that occurs in the real world, so real world physics come in to play. If you throw the switch on trolley tracks AFTER the front wheels have crossed the switch but BEFORE the rear wheels, the trolley will stop. @bhawthorne  @phaedral @dramypsyd Not pulling: one loved one dies and three loved ones might die. The problem is symmetrical, implying that your loved ones are their strangers and vice versa. Edit: I examined the diagram late and now see the color code. Oof! Also you were correct. @dramypsyd Read the manual to locate the brake. Or, come what may, my next step will be to get my revenge on the asshole making trolleys with no brakes.    @Kierkegaanks @dramypsyd @amiserabilist There is a solution involving a nuclear warhead in here somewhere.  @dramypsyd I’m always amused that people assume that rail switches are binary. In theory you could pull the lever halfway in the hopes of causing a derailment. Not an ideal solution, but it could turn out ok. @fuzzface @dramypsyd Or… multi-track drifting. Killing everyone 😃! Well, except the switch pullers, but would they really be able to live with themselves after all that? @Wlm @dramypsyd Yup. It is a totally crappy solution, basically you are hoping the derailment doesn’t cause a bigger disaster. @Wlm @dramypsyd Also funny that the trolleys don’t ever have operators or emergency stop capabilities.    @fuzzface @dramypsyd Yep, this is hilarious but it still has the same solution as all other trolley problems. At the speeds trolleys go, these derailments are pretty safe.  @jargoggles @fuzzface @dramypsyd Property damage that union workers will get paid to repair 🤣 @sidereal @fuzzface @dramypsyd @jargoggles @sidereal @dramypsyd Technically they are. If anyone dies, the Trolley Company gets sued. Not an issue of fault, simply where the money is. @fuzzface @sidereal @dramypsyd  Unless the derailed trolley slides broadside along both tracks killing all. Dead men tell no tales though. @dramypsyd One good solution would be to scream at the top of my lungs: “JUMP OFF THE TROLLEY; IT'S GOING SLOW ENOUGH TO TAKE THAT TURNOUT WITHOUT DERAILING!”
 @dramypsyd I would have a serious talk with my loved ones in which I'd question the necessity of their use of trolleys as a means of transportation. @dramypsyd why do they think,so much about hypothetical situations in which thsy have to kill people  @dramypsyd …for some reason my first thought at seeing the picture was “Frogger meets the trolley problem” and had to pause to think what that would be like. I’m still not sure.   @dramypsyd Okay but what if every 10 seconds, the trains close half the distance to the prisoners, and then close half the distance again, and then . . . @phaedral @dramypsyd It's a good fit for the trolley problem, which is garbage ethics. @dramypsyd As a railroader, the solution is simple. The operator of one switch throws his switch half way, and tells to the other operator to do the same. Both trolleys derail and harmlessly come to a stop, and no one dies. @dramypsyd call dibs on the middle track and watch the loser on the other side weep for their loved one - double winning
am I doing this right?  @dramypsyd This is just a picture of the premise of Dr. Strangelove. The solution would be to flip your switch first, then rhetorically vilify the other switch operator if they flip theirs too.    @dramypsyd who on this earth has a trolley full of loved ones? Do they have to love you back? Do i have to love all of them the same? Would anyone of them pull the lever for me? I might pull the... OH A SQUIRREL!!! 😍😍😍  @dramypsyd @jehansanspour I mean, this is just the Prisoner's Dilemma with a fake mustache, isn't it? @dramypsyd  @dramypsyd These people living near the trolley tracks should really form a union to collectively bargain with the philosophers. |
@dramypsyd 🙃 TF?!