Comment on Sleeping Beauty Trolley Problem

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TauZero@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Good question to ask, since specifics of selection process may affect the decision outcome! Other variants include growing humans in a vat from scratch on demand, using Star Trek transporter clones, or abducting the necessary number of people from a pre-selected list where your name happens to be the first one. For now, imagine the potential population as the 5 billion living cognizant adults.

as X approaches infinity, the difference becomes negligible

It may be negligible to the 4.999… billion adults sleeping comfortably and securely in their beds tonight, but the problem presupposed that you have already been abducted. It remains underdefined whether you refers to you the specific person reading this meme, or a more general you-the-unfortunate who has been chosen and is now listening to this on the headphones.

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