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Introducing: The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by pooh@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

"I have no mouth but I must scream" by Harlan Ellison is about an AI that's kept a small group of humans alive indefinitely to torture them.

No trolley problems exactly, but people do make painful choices in the story.

[–] Sinistar@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's what I was thinking of, but it's millions of people and they're all whittling their own numbers down via being forced to participate in increasingly outlandish trolley variations.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

ooh, and what if it was simulating their consciousnesses and torturing them endlessly for previously failing to help bring about its existence?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

That's just capitalism

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Wasn't that a black mirror episode too?