Yes, because he’s finally rolling the boulder down a hill.
Existential trolley problem
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
it says “towards” so not necessarily downhill
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Not necessarily downhill, but the possibility of downhill is implied. Both of these locations would need to be infinitely high in order for the direction to be uphill.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
… Millennial squats.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 months ago
I can get him a room at the Hilbert Hotel, I know a guy.
Nougat@fedia.io 6 months ago
I know infinite guys.
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I know aleph-null guys. All in the same family. Parents were lazy and named all their kids after the positive integers. 42 is my best friend.
dumbass@leminal.space 6 months ago
Dude stfu, that was supposed to be between us!
StoicLime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
We won’t know until we open the box…
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Sisyphus is both happy and not happy, as long as we don’t ask. But the instant we ask, it’s one or the other
(surely someone already made this joke)
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
He did it. He beat philosophy, this is the question that we’ve been searching for.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I feel really sorry for the cleaning crew at the hotel
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If he goes to the hotel, though, he will get to hear a great story from the owner of the hotel about a once beautiful but now decaying resort that includes a sweeping adventure involving a not-exactly-straight con man, an art theft that was not a theft, Willem Dafoe, and Tilda Swinton.
Etterra@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It depends on how much it costs to rent a room at the hotel. If it’s exorbitantly high, then the hotel can just be knocked down it’s no problem, you’re only going to risk endangering rich people and so that’s a victimless incident. The ship of Theseus on the other hand is most likely manned by ancient Greeks, who while not necessarily the best people by modern standards, are probably mostly poor or even slaves.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Right you are! So, how does this help us answer the question?
P.S. Sometimes I wonder how many people on here actually believe that human value is inversely proportional to wealth with no other factors. Repeat it enough times, even as a joke or hyperbole, and you start to believe it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sisyphus is rolling his boulder along a track toward the ship of theseus. It has had all its constituent parts removed and replaced and reconstructed along an alternate track. You may pull a lever and divert Sisyphus toward the reconstructed ship. How big of a dick would that make you toward the shipmaker?
Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Won’t the boulder roll back to the intersection anyway?
Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 6 months ago
death to america
No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de 6 months ago
42
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Isn’t there a version of this with like 5 intersecting thought experiments?
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Not quite what you asked for but here: xkcd.com/1531/
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I hate them all.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
theseus can eat shit so fuck that nerd.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Hell is other people
merari42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Na, I am pretty sure that sysiphus sees tracks that are only the result of a shwadow play in a cave and you have to exit the cave to truly experience reality
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 6 months ago
He can’t go to the hotel because infinite cannot divided by zero, which is his boulder
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Are we even sure that Sisyphus can make it to either location? Because in order to reach a destination he must first make it to the halfway point, right? But to make it there, he’s gotta make it to that point’s halfway point, but before he gets there he need to…
DancingBear@midwest.social 6 months ago
He doesn’t actually have to make it there he just has to pull that lever with a force an omnipotent being would have trouble accomplishing