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Introducing: The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Imagining a sci fi book where the last remnants of humanity are forced to solve trolley problems by an AI.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

ooh, and what if it was simulating their consciousnesses and torturing them endlessly for previously failing to help bring about its existence?