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faraiwe

@hierarchon

This nice mural is found at the Rotch Library, MIT

14 January at 17:58 | Open on beige.party
Alexander Knochel
Garth Cummings
small circle 🕊 in calmness

@hierarchon this does happen in the digital world, right here on the fedi :D

14 January at 19:52 | Open on social.coop
Willi
F4GRX Sébastien
Enqfila eu entro?
Glyph

@hierarchon unironically the best critique of utilitarian consequentialism I have ever seen. Did you make this?

14 January at 22:51 | Open on mastodon.social
StaringAtClouds

@hierarchon A Star Wars stormtrooper man's the trolley switch

There are 10 people tied on one branch

There's 1 person tied on the other

The stormtrooper misses both branches

14 January at 23:07 | Open on mastodon.social
tom jennings

@hierarchon

Why wasn't this the very first response iteration of the trolley problem! LOL

15 January at 0:06 | Open on tldr.nettime.org
Weekend Editor

@hierarchon

That does seem to be how trolley problems work out in reality: always something *else* happens.

someweekendreading.blog/two-tr

Or, as Graf von Moltke the Elder put it:

“In war you will generally find that the enemy has at any time three courses of action open to him. Of those three, he will invariably choose the fourth.”
— Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (quoted in “Hunting for Foxes: Capturing the Potential of Outlier Ideas in the Intelligence Community” by C Watts & J Brennan, in the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence 55:4 (2012), via Bruce Schneier)

@hierarchon

That does seem to be how trolley problems work out in reality: always something *else* happens.

someweekendreading.blog/two-tr

Or, as Graf von Moltke the Elder put it:

“In war you will generally find that the enemy has at any time three courses of action open to him. Of those three, he will invariably choose the fourth.”
— Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (quoted in “Hunting for Foxes: Capturing the Potential of...

15 January at 3:23 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
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