Thats actually a really good dilemma if you think about it. Like if everyone doubles it you basically don’t kill anyone. But you’ll always risk that there’s some psycho who likes killing and then you will have killed more. And if these choices continue endlessly you will eventually find someone like this. So killing immediately should be the right thing to do.
What if I want to be the person down the line?
If I must kill 1 person or cause even more death, I suppose I'd kill the person responsible for this scenario.
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Loop continues until entire human population tied to track and there's nobody left to pass the switch to. kill the scapegoat on round one and done
You would need a crazy low probability of a lunatic or a mass murderer being down the line to justify not to kill one person
Edit: Sum(2^n (1-p)^(n-1) p) ~ Sum(2^n p) for p small. So you'd need a p= (2×2^32 -2) ~ 1/(8 billion) chance of catching a psycho for expected values to be equal. I.e. there is only a single person tops who would decide to kill all on earth.
Gotta find the person tying everyone to these tracks and take them out
I say let it go for 33 doublings (2^33 people), and then decide.
I was gonna just do the one but they do say it's best to pay it forward when you can.
Right is the boomer way.
Throw the switch to pass and then sprint ahead 31 spots so I can kill 4 billion people like Thanos.
People always miss the bigger picture with these things. Why do these trolleys' brakes keep failing? Is it a design flaw in the braking system? Is the maintenance crew severely underfunded? Is it a slippage problem due to improper rail maintenance? It's a shame we can't even organize a work stoppage to sort this out since congress blocked the trolley union from striking...
Sunk cost fallacy, just pull it on one person instead of doubling the potential deaths and giving up control over when it will happen.
Easy. I'd just step in front of the train.
I would pull the lever after the first set of tires were past then the car would tumble and kill everyone but me
As the famous Double Down Domino would say, "I'm doublin' down!"
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I'd try to talk to the person on the track to see if they were an asshole and decide from there.
Switch the track from the bottom to the top as the train is half way over the switch, causing the train to drift across both rails hitting all three tied up people and the second switch operator.
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I think everyone here is missing the real answer. If you look at the picture you will notice a third option, there are track switches, two of them, you can bypass the people tied to the track, then kill the monster forcing you to kill for no reason.
What does "double it" mean? Double what?
