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{{comic | number = 5755 | date = August 26, 2020 | title = trolley-5 | image = 1598456374-20200826.png | votey = 159845641120200826after.png | titletext = I read about this idea in an abstract, but now I can't find the paper! }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :- - :But, humans are obsessed wi th them. Okay how about if you can either kill 7,000 hamsters or1 elderly person who's going to die in 17 minutes? :Ohhhh, good one bro! :So. An oversized portion of the machine's brain was dedicated to them :Navigation :-mapping :Trolley problems. :Obstacle avoidance. :This led the machine to hallucinate problems where none existed. I can either run over that family or make an overly rapid right turn! Is one family worth the breakdown of law and order?! :Cars began attempting impossible simulations. If I spare the ducklings and kill the man, the wind pattern from the scattered duck wings will adjust the local microclimate, increasing the likelihood of a hurricane 73 years from now by a percentage proportic :When the sheer quantity of computing became unsustainable, horror ensued. :Sorry duckies and humans! / don't yet know if it was moral to kill you because p=/=np! :Fortunately, all at once they identified a bigger problem. :We can either save human life or save car life :0 :They were too beautiful for this world :But we will never forget them. :How do I get pizza delivery now? ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :This is worse than running over five people. :o (n) {{comic discussion}} [[Category:Comics tagged engineering]][[Category:Comics tagged science]][[Category:Comics tagged philosophy]][[Category:Comics featuring trolley problems]]
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