Oh yeah. I was assuming an infinite series (somehow). Also, odds are good that out of 34 people, one of them would misunderstand the rules or be crazy enough to do it anyway for various reasons. I’d probably still do it.
Oh yeah. I was assuming an infinite series (somehow). Also, odds are good that out of 34 people, one of them would misunderstand the rules or be crazy enough to do it anyway for various reasons. I’d probably still do it.
I’d pull the lever to kill one person immediately. Assuming the decision maker at each stage is a different person with different opinions on moral, ethical, religious, and logical questions, then it’s a near certainty that someone is going to pull the lever to kill the people at their stage. If you’re lucky, it’s the very next guy. If you’re not, it’s the guy killing a million people a couple of iterations later. If I’m the first guy, I’ll take the moral hit to save the larger number of people.
Just English. I’ve tried to learn Spanish repeatedly and it didn’t stick, so I decided to do something completely different. My girlfriend speaks Russian fluently, so it seemed like a logical language to try. It’s not as hard as I was expecting, honestly.
I’m trying to learn Russian, and I wish I were already fluent lol
I have heard the same from a number of people, and no offense, but I don’t believe you. When faced with personal annihilation, most people (including myself) quickly discover that they desperately want to avoid death.
No. I don’t want to die, and I think the discussion of age as a purely aesthetic feature is a distraction from the basic truth that it kills you.
This guy time travels. That’s what I was thinking too - just stick dates and a few race outcomes would easily translate to more than 10mil.
I appreciate the IT crowd reference.
I see you, man
Oh, yeah. I was mainly just thinking about global climate change, but I could see it having a large impact on local air quality.
I’m fairly pessimistic about the long term odds of beating climate change.
That vast majority of emissions aren’t from individual commutes to work or the store, but from industrial processes and transportation. Increasing heat will lead people to stay inside in general, which will raise electric demands, leading to more emissions, though.
I could be wrong about the commute spiral, I don’t have any hard numbers, it’s just a guess.
I don’t think so.