pooh [she/her, any]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months agoIntroducing: The Prisoner's Trolley Problemmahexbear.netimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1182arrow-down10
arrow-up1182arrow-down1imageIntroducing: The Prisoner's Trolley Problemmahexbear.netpooh [she/her, any]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareSinistar@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·6 months agoImagining a sci fi book where the last remnants of humanity are forced to solve trolley problems by an AI.
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-26 months ago“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.
minus-squareSinistar@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·6 months agoThat’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.
minus-squareHumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoooh, and what if it was simulating their consciousnesses and torturing them endlessly for previously failing to help bring about its existence?
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoThat’s just capitalism
minus-squarePeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoWasn’t that a black mirror episode too?
Imagining a sci fi book where the last remnants of humanity are forced to solve trolley problems by an AI.
“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.
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.
ooh, and what if it was simulating their consciousnesses and torturing them endlessly for previously failing to help bring about its existence?
That’s just capitalism
Wasn’t that a black mirror episode too?