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I say double it. (feddit.ch)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 44 points 3 years ago (4 children)

At some people you will run out of people to tie to the tracks.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    How many branches is that going to take? Just out of interest.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Only 32

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    math checks out. log2(8 billion) ~= 32.9

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's a little more complicated than that. You have to be summing everyone who is still tied to all the previous tracks. It needs to be a geometric sum formula.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You could just move them over whenever someone decides to double it up. That way the person that was going to die alone is doomed to die anyway. 😂

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I wonder if we do stack it till every human is tied to the track whos at the lever?

    Does the train/AI decide?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    The current version of GPT is willing to sacrifice billions of robots for humanities sake. However, it proposed to strap alien civilizations to the track next. And in that case it would choose to save the larger group…

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    2^33 is approximately 8.5 billion, which is roughly the population of the world.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    So the 32nd person decides to either kill half of humanity and end the scenario, or give someone the power to end human kind...

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