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[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think we want a world where there are any sort of infinity of people, and I don't think a tram is the solution to revert a world from having its infinities to having a finite number

I also see practicality problems in tying even a small infinity of people to railway tracks, as that requires yet another infinity of people to hold people down, and another infinity of people people to do the tying (as well as the infinities of people to do the tying and holding on the other track) and all of those people will have to be fed and watered with infinite amounts of food and water (some infinities of people for infinite time), the infinities of people tying people down would need some education, implying infinite teachers

It's a logistic nightmare

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If the next person getting tied down holds down the person currently being tied down then this could work. I’m sure they’d be game so that’s fine.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I reject the premise since there will only ever exist a finite number of people. They will all die. One day the last human will die.

[–] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Can I group the people into groups of 1, then 2, then 3 and so forth? When the trolley is done with the killing, it will have killed -1/12 people.

[–] kometes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I would pull the lever and then steal a bus and knock the trolley off of the track, killing the least amount of people possible.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually... this means there are infinite people so:

Let X be the number of people killed = (-infinity)

As infity is defined :

infinity + X = infinity

infinity + (-infinity) =

infinity - infinity = infinty

So no people would have died black guy pointing at his head meme

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Desnt work when they're different classes of infinity.

sort them so you kill one person first, then 2, then 3, then 4...

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 1 points 1 month ago

there are more real numbers than integers though

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