pooh [they/them, any]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agoIntroducing: The Prisoner's Trolley Problemmahexbear.netimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down10
arrow-up1163arrow-down1imageIntroducing: The Prisoner's Trolley Problemmahexbear.netpooh [they/them, any]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-210 months ago“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.
minus-squareSinistar@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 months agoThat’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.
minus-squareHumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoooh, and what if it was simulating their consciousnesses and torturing them endlessly for previously failing to help bring about its existence?
“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.
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.
ooh, and what if it was simulating their consciousnesses and torturing them endlessly for previously failing to help bring about its existence?