- If you allow to trolley to proceed, there's a 50% chance it will run over every human on the planet
- But if you flip the switch, it takes the long way around, possibly bankrupting the trolley company. And you have a legal obligation to the shareholders to prevent that from happening at all costs.
That's why it's important that the trolley company was established as a non-profit. And if it does take funding, investors' returns will be capped at 100x.
It's also why even the trolley company's CEO agrees that it's important that -should the board determine that the CEO is fantastically untrustworthy and unethical- the board is able to fire said CEO and replace him with someone that's trustworthy and ethical.
pcthrowaway · · focus · HN ↗
- If you allow to trolley to proceed, there's a 50% chance it will run over every human on the planet
- But if you flip the switch, it takes the long way around, possibly bankrupting the trolley company. And you have a legal obligation to the shareholders to prevent that from happening at all costs.
MichaelDickens · · focus · HN ↗
(...wait)
simoncion · · focus · HN ↗
(...wait.)
NexRebular · · focus · HN ↗
So... a language model?