I thought that the correct answer to these was making a loop on the right, merging the lines.
No, we need a second trolley.
Top case is not the smallest infinite; going for prime number would save a lot of time for a lot of people before they die
The set of all primes is the same size infinity as the set of all positive integers because you could create a way to map one to the other aka you can count to the nth prime. Reals are different in that there are an infinite number of real between any two reals which means there’s no possible way to map them.
depends on what you mean by “smallest”
This hypothetical post is a thought crime!
Is there a way to take both routes?
Hit the hand brake and drift that sucker.
with my knack for drifting i’ll miss both and hit something else entirely even within this imaginary scenario
Multilane drifting!
Good to know there are roughly 6 real numbers for every integer
If there are child real numbers then you can fit more.
Actually… this means there are infinite people so:
Let X be the number of people killed = (-infinity)
As infity is defined :
infinity + X = infinity
infinity + (-infinity) =
infinity - infinity = infinty
So no people would have died black guy pointing at his head meme
Desnt work when they’re different classes of infinity.
The first one, because people will die at a slower rate.
The second one, because the density will cause the trolley to slow down sooner, versus the first one where it will be able to pick up speed again between each person. Also, more time to save people down the rail with my handy rope cutting knife.
I think it was numberphile, or maybe vsauce, who did a video on infinities. It was really interesting. I learnt a lot, then forgot it all.
Ah yes, I remember my eyes glazing over as things got too complicated to fit through my thick skull
First, I start moving people to hotel rooms…
I mean, the bottom. The trolley simply would stop, get gunked up by all the guts and the sheer amount of bodies so close together. Checkmate tolley.
How do we know it’s an accurate illustration? They might have jacked up the trolley with monster truck wheels or something.
I mean, maybe, but I can only go off what I see here.
Getting killed by a train is apparently just an inevitability in this universe. Either choice is just the grand conductors plan.
Bottom. No matter what your “real” number assignation in the queue is, theres an infinite number of people before the train gets to you. Therefore every single person will live a full life before the train reaches them.
What about the first guy
What real number is he? There’s infinity people before him too
This some Zeno shit, man
He ded
either way infinite people die, just not getting involved
Bottom. Train will stall/derail faster.
