this is what living in 2025 feels like
is it too late for me to “teknikally - at trains de Broglie wavelength, the decoherence length is probably of the order of size of proton or maybe even less, so actually, the system became deterministic, pretty much as soon as trains started moving, and our lever pulling can only change the results between the (no certain death) and (certain death), and expectatition value of death is now just classical addition of probablities of these added (and not the wave additions) and so, non of the interpretations are required”
Can I do multi-slit drifting?
Observe
I love the trend of making trolley memes more and more obstruse.
I agree, it’s one of my favourite internet things.
You may already be aware of this, but on the off chance that you’re not, here’s a cool thing: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/
I was but I thanks for sharing nonetheless. Its allways worth to shoutout neal.fun
*abstruse
Thank you, turns out I remembered a made up word.
No worries Yeah, sounded like a mixture of abstruse and obtuse 😂
By the time I’m done analyzing the situation and determine the best outcome, the sun had already burnt out.
I oscillate the lever at a rate such that I cannot know whether the wave-trolley went through while the detectors were on or off, introducing further uncertainty.
That might not rule out hidden variables, the position of the lever should be determined by the polarisation of photons from the other side of the universe. That way you can at least rule out local variables.
I put the lever in the box with the cat, smeared with tuna, which also release the poison.
I run towards one of the slits and cover it with my body.
The trolley now behaves like a normal trolley made out of particles.
It instantly grinds to a halt since there are no rails on its side of the barrier.wait till this guy hears about
As a good virtue ethicist I walk away from the lever and live my virtuous life
Probably by trying to beat up Persians. Or some other city state. Or slaves. You know, virtuously
I do nothing. I went through QM classes in my Chemistry times and I still don’t get it. If I do nothing at least nobody can blame me for fucking everything up.
I mean, the blame clearly lies on whoever created the fucking situation in the first place. I hate the trolley problem.
I feel like blame is the very obvious factor missing from most descriptions of trolley problems I’ve seen.
“Will it send me to jail?” is a highly important question for something that might easily be considered murder even if it does prevent other deaths.
the blame aspect is the original purpose of the trolley problem, it’s about whether the trolley puller can accept the moral blame of killing the one person (and saving 5 others) in the original postulation // is the trolley puller blameless for non-intervention even when intervention is trivial
In reality though it would become a legal question, not (just) a moral one.
I fight the universe with the universe. I pull out a 20 sided die. 10 or under I pull the lever. I place all blame or credit upon what the die says.
Why use a d20 instead of a coin? Do you always have a d20 with you?
You don’t?
Tbh at this point, yeah, I’m probably more likely to have a d20 with me than a coin
