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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm just gonna start swolping my arms out pulling all levers, fuck it

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

The one, that seems to be closest

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

that's what i thought. I'm sure something's going way over my head but my first thought was "how is this a tough choice or even a question"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Does Infinity include dimensions of levers that you can't comprehend?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Works with mazes and everything else. It's the "good ol' rock" of cardinality

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Help me, I assumed that it's possible but then two men appeared to decompose the train and put the parts back together into two copies of the original train

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Get a time machine that can take me infinitely toward and backward in time, then use an infinitely long piece of string to attached to one lever in each cluster, then pull all the levers at once to redirect the train.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Irrelevant

You will never be in time to pull an infinite amount of levers before the trolley runs those people over

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Literally says your abilities allow you to do so.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The image suggests that a closest element of each cluster exists, but a furthest element does not, so I will pull the closest lever in each cluster.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nope, they're infinitely close to you as well. They're now inside you.

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

Oh, so that's why I can flip them all simultaneously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Then I will swiggity swootie my booty to jimmy the peavy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

sortition all the way

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

i open the I Ching

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I like the axiom of determinacy more than the axiom of choice.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can I take the axiom of choice?

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

Yeah but then like that person said, they will disassemble the trolley in a weird way and put back together two trolleys, one on each track.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Sorry, we sold out of that 5 min before you walked in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I invoke the axiom of choice and hope for the best. because if it doesn't work we have bigger problems then 4 dead people

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Just pull out a few thousand levers and throw them in front of the trolley.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I know you can't enumerate them all, but you just have to enumerate them faster than the trolly. and live forever

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Just pull every one, I know one in each cluster will work, but like I gotta make sure

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Since any one will work I just pull a nearby lever at random and go home

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Too complicated I'm just going to walk away

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would just pick the value from the root of each underlaying balanced binary tree, easy.

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

I select the most proximate lever in each cluster, using any criteria that would produce a beginning of a discrete order (so no ties for first). If I get infinite "tries" then even if it is an infinitesimally small chance of selecting the functional lever, at some point I will expect to get it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yo this sounds suspiciously similar to how quantum resistant lattice cryptography works.

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