Trolley problem

I've played enough X-COM to know that 50/50 is actually 100%, I just don't know which way. Better trigger it!!

30%? Let me deliver that shot with crit across the map to your teammate hunkered down behind full cover for you!

Well, you can take yourself out of the equation because you're not tied down and can just move after flipping the switch.

chooses bottom track

"C'mon...c'mon!"

trolley heads towards committe members

"Dammit!"

runs over and jumps on the nuclear bomb pressure pad

I'll take the 50/50 because those are some damn good odds!

Joke's on you I hate myself and my family

sudo rm train.sh

problem solved 👍

Now how do I get it to drift over everything but teams a and b?

It'll hit the bomb, so teams a and b will be blasted either way :)
- I assumed that the bomb would only kill 4.5 million people but all 8 billion are acceptable too, unless the teams a and b happen to be in the blast radius which seems unlikely. To me the area was only referencing the location of the bomb not the train.

why would you wanna kill the programming language commitees.

I like those odds

There is at least one user here in the superposition of being on two tracks at once.

Let's play coin flip!

Quickly move the switch while on track, then hope the paths willl be wide enough to stop the trolley.

Am I also in range of the nuclear bomb, or am I safe? Unclear as the image doesn't specify if it is drawn to scale or not. Also which direction are the tracks currently pointing.

Wait, what does the middle track do?

It's the Republican track
Same as normal but you chose the status quo rather than having it enforced upon you.

deepmind: tr0ll3y m4n r3f3rs t0....

Option 3 means that the Javascript standards team dies either way, right? Number 3. No hesitation.

the c++ team is a sacrifice I'm willing to make. can we just shoot Brendan Eich in the head if he's not in there too?
- Push him onto the pressure pad. Make it his fault.
- I feel like all C++ does these days is badly and very slowly copy other languages. It wouldn't be a huge loss.

Javascript Standards Team is such an Oxymoron.

They've done amazing work trying to turn the clusterfuck they started with into a good language
- That "trying" is doing the heavy lifting in that sentence.
Yeah, didn't know there was a standard committee and can't believe how inept they are.

Bottom tracks, easy

Worth it

“You and your entire family” means “All life on Earth”.

That should make the decision somewhat easier.

By my definition, family is who you treat like family.
- I try to treat everyone I meet like family
If you make it "all human live" it starts to look quite attractive again
I thought seaweed didn't have a common ancestor

there might be an argument that JavaScript kills more than a nuclear bomb

Ok so this one just isn't fair.

Two possibilities end up with me dead, two end up with millions dead, and one ends up with me being unemployed.

Sorry not sorry Team A and B, sacrifices must be made.

Wait, which one leaves you unemployed?
- The lack of standards path of course.

I'd take my odds with the bottom track.

Which metropolitan area?

Assuming it is in the US, at 4.5 million it can only be San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley.
- would the bomb also kill javascript and C++ or would I have to keep throwing trolleys at it until I get both silicon valley and the JS/C++ devs?

Am I in the Metropolitan area?

You are on track A and the bomb is within sight. If you get the shit end of the 50/50, everyone in the diagram would be vaporized instantly
- So you're saying there's a 100% chance the comitees get vaporized by choosing the bottom track.
- Lmao

Middle track. Then I have plenty of time to hotwire the nuke with my handy dandy mallet

I like those odds

my family is dying and i dont like it, atleast get me on the tracks with them, would not be able to live with the guilt anyway

Take another look, you're already standing on the top track.
- well that gives me some soothe