Doesn’t matter what you do in this situation because you don’t know the other percentages our outcomes. If you do nothing and miss the 50% chance that there is two people, does that mean there are no people, or could the other 50% chance be that there are also 10 people in that box?
If you miss the 10%, does that mean there is a 90% chance it’s empty, or a 90% chance there are 100 people?
Oh no!
You have written an iron-clad bot that can open multiple windows on Meh, use different ones of your many accounts, and perfectly answer reCapt cha tests.
There are 100 IRKS now for sale.
You can use your bot to make sure you get ONE IRK and hope for the best with that and leave the other 99 for other worthy(?) Mehmbers.
Or you can use your bot to greedily order EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 100 and dash the life-long hopes of all other Mehtizens.
What will you do?
@blaineg@phendrick Without. Completely random. And that’s how I’d end up with 10000 trackrs, and my pallet of now completely obsolete Martian watches would go to <name retracted>
Also realize our bias is to choose the “save” option over the “bad things happen/kill/lose” option even if the outcome would be identical regardless of which option. It is all in the wording and human biases. And of course group statistics don’t tell us individual outcomes, just the chances of an outcome, not which group you will be in.
If you pull the lever part way, the tracks won’t connect properly to either course and the trolley will derail. That may kill the trolley conductor, but the dick could have put on the brakes so this is kinda on them.
Are those Schrödinger’s boxes?? Doing it with people rather than cats makes it much more interesting, right?? But if you do nothing, then the people are considered simultaneously both alive and dead. So, if you go on the “first do no harm” principle, then just stop the trolley.
Ohhhh man. Too addictive.
@snapster
I need the “just click the ‘meh’ button” option.
Oh I’m pulling that lever
Pull the lever. Statistically those 10 people will be fine
I didnt know Charlie had such deep thoughts! I guess that is what being put in time out does for him!!
@tinamarie1974 What is he in time out for? Pee’ing on the boxes?
@Kidsandliz oh check his Woof! Woof! Thread, Charlie talks about it
And no, potty training never seemed to be an issue for him. Thank goodness.
Doesn’t matter what you do in this situation because you don’t know the other percentages our outcomes. If you do nothing and miss the 50% chance that there is two people, does that mean there are no people, or could the other 50% chance be that there are also 10 people in that box?
If you miss the 10%, does that mean there is a 90% chance it’s empty, or a 90% chance there are 100 people?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ACraigL
I killed that 69, oooooh yeah
@lichme I would have been less, but I kinda didn’t pay attention on a few and made the wrong decision.
@ACraigL @lichme
@ACraigL @lichme 69 here too.
The real question is why are there people in the mystery boxes? Everyone knows boxes are for cats.
@narfcake or toothbrush coins
@narfcake Because we value our cats and don’t want to put their lives at risk? I can think of a few people I’d like to have in the boxes.
Trolley questions are fun.
https://store.explosm.net/products/trial-by-trolley
Oh no!
You have written an iron-clad bot that can open multiple windows on Meh, use different ones of your many accounts, and perfectly answer reCapt cha tests.
There are 100 IRKS now for sale.
You can use your bot to make sure you get ONE IRK and hope for the best with that and leave the other 99 for other worthy(?) Mehmbers.
Or you can use your bot to greedily order EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 100 and dash the life-long hopes of all other Mehtizens.
What will you do?
I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.
@phendrick
I will take advantage and order all 100.
@phendrick
I will play nice and order only one.
@phendrick
F**K the IRK; not worth the money anyway.
@phendrick That’d be too IRKsome, I think. But I might order ten and anonymously send 9 to some of my favorite Mehtizens.
@brainmist @phendrick With or without peeking first?
@blaineg @phendrick Without. Completely random. And that’s how I’d end up with 10000 trackrs, and my pallet of now completely obsolete Martian watches would go to <name retracted>
Dunno if this makes me a good or bad person…
I will say, my worst enemy and those damn robots had bad days!
The one about saving a baby versus saving five elderly people is the one I got stuck on.
64
Glad I didn’t kill 69. That would have sucked. Or uh, not sucked.
@cinoclav I actually like position #68 best. That means she does me first and then I owe her one.
Also realize our bias is to choose the “save” option over the “bad things happen/kill/lose” option even if the outcome would be identical regardless of which option. It is all in the wording and human biases. And of course group statistics don’t tell us individual outcomes, just the chances of an outcome, not which group you will be in.
@riskybryzness I thought I was being altruistic, but somehow you’ve managed a lower kill count.
If you pull the lever part way, the tracks won’t connect properly to either course and the trolley will derail. That may kill the trolley conductor, but the dick could have put on the brakes so this is kinda on them.
I wanted to see how low of a kill count I could get
@mbersiam damn, you had me beat too.
Are those Schrödinger’s boxes?? Doing it with people rather than cats makes it much more interesting, right?? But if you do nothing, then the people are considered simultaneously both alive and dead. So, if you go on the “first do no harm” principle, then just stop the trolley.