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Re:Absurd Trolley Problems by spoonjim on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:16AM (#31997790)
Wouldn't sacrifice any humans for a billion monkeys
Re:Absurd Trolley Problems by McBeige on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:53AM (#31999165)
If you were a monkey, would you sacrifice a billion humans to save a monkey?

Or equivalently, would you sacrifice a billion humans to save a robot that's twice as sentient as the average human?

Re:Absurd Trolley Problems by spoonjim on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:41PM (#32004278)
I cannot really say what I would do if I was a monkey, it's like asking me what a circle with corners would look like. Too far outside my ability to imagine. I wouldn't sacrifice any number of humans to save any kind of robot either, unless it was a robot critical to human survival like a surgical robot in the middle of a natural disaster.
Re:Absurd Trolley Problems by yardstick on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:29AM (#31997870)
Would you save a monkey whose body contains antibodies for the cure for cancer for humans (or AIDS/HIV/whatever), or 1 human?
Re:Absurd Trolley Problems by spoonjim on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:41PM (#32004285)
The monkey. The answer would be the same for just a vial of the antibodies, the monkey is completely incidental.