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[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Imagine being the first one being killed on any of these tracks.

The probability of that is...?

Mathematicians tell me, please, because my mind is breaking.

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[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

What about a time loop where only one person dies, but infinite times?

[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Desnt work when they're different classes of infinity.

[-] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Okay, so what’s the point of “proving” that there some “infinities” are “bigger” than others? What’s the practical application here? Because an infinite hotel with an infinite number of guests is physically impossible, so I don’t see the point.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago

Practical application in math tends to be like three degrees of separation and half a century removed from the math at play. In this case, all of modern mathematics is based on set theory, so it's more that this stuff allows us to do other, more practically useful math while knowing what we're talking about.

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[-] narr1@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 days ago

i asked myself: wwjd? and now i ask you because i have no idea

[-] p3n@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I do what I always do: run to the trolley, then jump up and pull the emergency stop because I hate false dilemmas.

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[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It'll make it through maybe 3 infinities before derailing. Go bottom, end it faster.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

Like everything else in this holographic universe we live in, I’d just close my eyes and believe the bodies I’m trampling are imaginary.

[-] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Hold the lever halfway so the trolley picks both rails at the same time, to ensure highest possible kill comboq

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[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Geez, disconnect the trains so you can hit both lines at the same time, obviously.

[-] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Can I group the people into groups of 1, then 2, then 3 and so forth? When the trolley is done with the killing, it will have killed -1/12 people.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I use the lever to kill the train driver.

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