• Arcity 🇵🇸🇺🇦
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    9 months ago

    The rate of death is constant for integers but infinite for reals, assuming a constant speed for the trolley. Much like real life I prefer humans having a longer lifespan, assuming a constant population.

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      9 months ago

      the rate of deaths over time is certainly higher for reals, but you would never reach an infinite number of deaths in either case because there is not an infinite amount of time, an infinite amount of track, an infinite number of victims, or a trolley capable of operating forever. As always, the material reality places limits on us that is simply ignored for the sake of creating a thought experiment. sicko-jammin

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        9 months ago

        It doesn’t take an infinite amount of time to travel a finite distance. Let’s say it takes 1 second to travel to the integer 1 on the reals, you would have ran over an infinite amount of people because there is an infinite amount of real numbers between 0 and 1.

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          9 months ago

          But you’d still need a physical, actually-Real, construction of infinite track to line up infinite people (tied down by infinite effort) with a train capable of doing infinite genocide in one second.

          I fully support efforts to construct said train, however I am doubtful as to their success.

          Furthermore, Goku could defeat Saitama.

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            9 months ago

            Well yes, the density of people would even surpass that of a black hole. Of course its silly to take it seriously.