Trolley-6

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trolley-6

Title text: There, now I've solved demarcation, consciousness, and ethics. That's pretty much it, right?

Votey

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Good news everyone. We've solved trolley problems.

Instead of trying to reason out how you should behave in the trolley, we have generated simulated societies that obey trolley-style ethical rules.

At one extreme, all society members would run over the five people in the way of the trolley. At the other extreme, all would change course to only kill one. We can simulate arbitrary numbers of intermediate scenarios.

The result is, and I can say this with five sigma confidence, that it doesn't make a dog's turd worth of difference. Therefore we conclude the trolley problem has no standing as an ethical matter.

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But what do people do when forced to make impossible choices?

The only settings where real life people regularly face trolley-style problems are total war and introductory philosophy classes.

so

They must be abolished.

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No more questions or I will go trolley on your ass! Coo -

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