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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzIT'S A TRAP
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    4 hours ago

    Probably better than an infinite number of people waiting an infinite amount of time for there impending doom and then also an infinite number of people starving to death.

    you have to remember ℵ^0 in this case is included in ℵ^1 or at least the numerical value is, which is the only information given.

    I guess technically you could value one human soul above the other and technically this is philosophy? So I guess technically you should? but anyway everything that happens on ℵ^0 will also happen on ℵ^1 except more will always happen on ℵ^1 than ℵ^0 so whether there is unintended consequences or not doesn’t really matter. it’s always safer to pick the countable infinities.

    Unless there is something innately good about physically having more people exist no matter there condition. but you would have to ask a philosopher about that one, I’m paid to pull lever’s not philosophize.



  • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzIT'S A TRAP
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    7 hours ago

    I pull the lever, if the cart goes over the real numbers it will instantly kill an infinite amount of people and continue killing an infinite amount of people for every moment for the rest of existence.

    If I pull the lever a finite amount of people will die instantly and slowly over time tending twords infinity but due to the linear nature of movement it would never actually reach Infinity even if there are an infinite number of people tied to the track a finite amount is all that could ever die.
















  • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzPhDebaters
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    5 days ago

    To treat philosophers a group as an individual capable of wanting a single thing across all is an over generalization in fact treating an individual as an individual itself is a over generalization since we consistently hold conflicting desires but before we get into that we must first ask what a “desire” itself is but that comes with the problem of what the “self” is in itself but we can’t explain that until we dive into what we are talking about when we say In but that would be semantics which I will now define in the following 500 book thesis on redefining the English language so it supports my esoteric politically biased view point because my grade school bully called me stupid when I was five.