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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

You'd also have to consider the value of the lives saved by not sending the train to the 5 person track.

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[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

I thought that information would be encoded when you assign -5 to it (value of the outcome of losing 5 lives) and -1 for 1 life lose doing nothing.

But the logic would be doing something and saving life is a plus, doing something and getting more people killed is a huge negative

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

So basically, you're saying that the two tracks with people tied to them are valued at -1 and -5, while the empty tracks have some positive non-zero value?

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[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

Uhg you could read what I wrote

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago

Repeating what you were told in different words is a way of confirming your understanding. That's what I'm trying to do here.

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