Oh yeah. I was assuming an infinite series (somehow). Also, odds are good that out of 34 people, one of them would misunderstand the rules or be crazy enough to do it anyway for various reasons. I'd probably still do it.

I'd pull the lever to kill one person immediately. Assuming the decision maker at each stage is a different person with different opinions on moral, ethical, religious, and logical questions, then it's a near certainty that someone is going to pull the lever to kill the people at their stage. If you're lucky, it's the very next guy. If you're not, it's the guy killing a million people a couple of iterations later. If I'm the first guy, I'll take the moral hit to save the larger number of people.

Made me laugh

Man, I totally forgot about this story. That takes me waaaaay back.

I'm trying to learn Russian, and I wish I were already fluent lol

That's just all the movies, man lol I second They Cloned Tyrone- it was excellent.

This guy time travels. That's what I was thinking too - just stick dates and a few race outcomes would easily translate to more than 10mil.

I appreciate the IT crowd reference.

Yep. That's definitely worse.

Yeah, they're not kidding. That looks fantastic.

Oh, yeah. I was mainly just thinking about global climate change, but I could see it having a large impact on local air quality.

I'm fairly pessimistic about the long term odds of beating climate change.

I hallucinated a werewolf and slammed on the brakes of an 8 ton military vehicle in rural Afghanistan, causing a patrol to go on alert for an attack.