• @ghariksforge
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    331 year ago

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

        • @alerternate
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          191 year ago

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

          • @ghariksforge
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            11 year ago

            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.

            • Sabazius
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              1 year ago

              It’ll just be one fewer junctions. 2^n is always one more than the sum of 21+…2(n-1)

              • @Magikjak
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                11 year ago

                I think you have to include 2^0 for that to be true?

                e.g 2^0 = 1, 2^1 = 2 2^0 + 2^1 = 1 + 2 = 3, 2^2 = 4 … 7, 8 15,16 31, 32 etc.

            • @[email protected]
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              51 year ago

              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. 😂

              • @Patawagon
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                21 year ago

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

                Does the train/AI decide?

                • @[email protected]
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                  21 year 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…

      • @ghariksforge
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        1 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      -21 year ago

      A later choice of nobody on each track would be ideal. Even a psycho at the switch would be unable to kill.