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#thoughtexperiments

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Andrew Shields<p>The trolley problem, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the television series “The Good Place”, and allegory and literature as thought experiments. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/111Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>111Words</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TheTrolleyProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheTrolleyProblem</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PhilippaFoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilippaFoot</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ShirleyJackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShirleyJackson</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TheLottery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheLottery</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ThoughtExperiments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiments</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Allegory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Allegory</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AlbertEinstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlbertEinstein</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ErwinSchr%C3%B6dinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErwinSchrödinger</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TheGoodPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGoodPlace</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Television" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Television</span></a> <a href="https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-trolley-problem-shirley-jacksons.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">24/11/the-trolley-problem-shirley-jacksons.html</span></a></p>
Shrikant Joshi<p>A lemmy discussion about some GTA exec wanting to price games based on per hour value got me thinking, what is the per-hour value you are willing to pay for entertainment?</p><p>I guess there could be a consensus in terms of percentage of income but is there a specific dollar-value that can be calculated as a baseline?</p><p><a href="https://noc.social/tags/entrrtainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>entrrtainment</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/value" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>value</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/pricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pricing</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/thoughtexperiments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thoughtexperiments</span></a></p>
FeralRobots<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrolleyProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrolleyProblem</span></a> is predicated on the assumption that it's possible to know all possible outcomes in a scenario. Just like all other thought-experiments. "Broad Logical Possibility" as an old prof used to put it when students would get hung up on the fact that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/THOUGHTEXPERIMENTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>THOUGHTEXPERIMENTS</span></a> ALMOST INVARIABLY PRESUME PRIOR CONDITIONS THAT ARE NOT IN ANY CONCEIVABLE WAY POSSIBLE.</p><p>In a real self-driving car scenario, the car will almost always be able to do something else besides killing someone.</p>
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