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fossilesqueM to Science MemesEnglish · 1 year ago

Existential trolley problem

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Existential trolley problem

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  • defunct_punk@lemmy.world
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    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…

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      He doesn’t actually have to make it there you just have to pull that lever with a force an omnipotent being would have trouble accomplishing

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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        Just make the lever longer.

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          Dude

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    • xlash123@sh.itjust.works
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      Instead, let’s aim for double the end location. Then all he has to do is travel half that distance

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        But he must first travel half the distance to that line, leaving us where we started.

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      It depends on whether Sisyphus has learned calculus.

      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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        I hear they only have pomegranates in hell. Neither calculus nor gravity for them!

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    deleted by creator

    • deaf_fish@lemm.ee
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      I think that is how I would be if on a ship.without a computer, going insane.

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      … Millennial squats.

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    Dosen’t matters what you choose, given that for sisyphus to reach his destination first he have to reach half, then half of it, then half again and again making movement impossible.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Ah, so the answer must be no.

    • repungnant_canary@lemmy.world
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      “Hołd my limes!” - said Sisyphus

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      Stands up and walks away

  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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    Yes, because he’s finally rolling the boulder down a hill.

    • (⬤ᴥ⬤)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      it says “towards” so not necessarily downhill

      • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
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        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.

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          AFAIK “infinitely up” is more plausible than “infinitely down”, as in most systems you would eventually hit a center-of-mass when going down.

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          He could be coming in from underground though

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    you can always add an empty room without changing the total number of rooms, so there should be plenty of room for sisyphus and his boulder at the hotel

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    He did it. He beat philosophy, this is the question that we’ve been searching for.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I can get him a room at the Hilbert Hotel, I know a guy.

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      I know infinite guys.

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        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.

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      Dude stfu, that was supposed to be between us!

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    We won’t know until we open the box…

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    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)

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    I feel really sorry for the cleaning crew at the hotel

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    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.

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    When the math teacher does philosophy questions.

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Won’t the boulder roll back to the intersection anyway?

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