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Existential trolley problem (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 140 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It depends on whether Sisyphus has learned calculus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I hear they only have pomegranates in hell. Neither calculus nor gravity for them!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Instead, let's aim for double the end location. Then all he has to do is travel half that distance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Just make the lever longer.