pooh [she/her, any] to memes • 8 months agoIntroducing: The Prisoner's Trolley Problemmaimagemessage-square48 fedilinkarrow-up1182
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minus-squareSinistarhexbear20·8 months agoImagining a sci fi book where the last remnants of humanity are forced to solve trolley problems by an AI. link
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eehexbear16·edit-28 months ago"I have no mouth but I must scream" by Harlan Ellison is about an AI that's kept a small group of humans alive indefinitely to torture them. No trolley problems exactly, but people do make painful choices in the story. linkfedilink
minus-squareSinistarhexbear14·8 months agoThat's what I was thinking of, but it's millions of people and they're all whittling their own numbers down via being forced to participate in increasingly outlandish trolley variations. link
minus-squareHumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]hexbear2·8 months agoooh, and what if it was simulating their consciousnesses and torturing them endlessly for previously failing to help bring about its existence? link
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlhexbear1·8 months agoThat's just capitalism linkfedilink
minus-squarePeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlhexbear3·8 months agoWasn't that a black mirror episode too? linkfedilink
Imagining a sci fi book where the last remnants of humanity are forced to solve trolley problems by an AI.
"I have no mouth but I must scream" by Harlan Ellison is about an AI that's kept a small group of humans alive indefinitely to torture them.
No trolley problems exactly, but people do make painful choices in the story.
That's what I was thinking of, but it's millions of people and they're all whittling their own numbers down via being forced to participate in increasingly outlandish trolley variations.
ooh, and what if it was simulating their consciousnesses and torturing them endlessly for previously failing to help bring about its existence?
That's just capitalism
Wasn't that a black mirror episode too?