The second one. It'll be a bit rough, but overall should be a smoother ride for the occupants.
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either way infinite people die, just not getting involved
What about a time loop where only one person dies, but infinite times?
Actually... this means there are infinite people so:
Let X be the number of people killed = (-infinity)
As infity is defined :
infinity + X = infinity
infinity + (-infinity) =
infinity - infinity = infinty
So no people would have died black guy pointing at his head meme
Desnt work when they're different classes of infinity.
Geez, disconnect the trains so you can hit both lines at the same time, obviously.
You've misunderstood "some infinities are bigger than others." Both of these infinities are the same size. You can show this since each person on the bottom track can be assigned a person from the top track at 1 to 1 ratio. An example of infinities that are different sizes are all whole numbers and all decimal numbers. You cannot assign a whole number to every decimal number.
Matt parker does a good video on this. I can't remember the exact title but if you search "is infinite $20 notes worth more than infinite $1 notes" you should find it.
An example of infinities that are different sizes are all whole numbers and all decimal numbers.
not sure what you mean by this, if you mean fractions you are wrong. Rational numbers and natural numbers can have a 1 on 1 assignment, look up cantors diagonalization. If you meant real numbers then you are right.
Decimals are how you represent numbers, not the numbers themselves.
I'm not talking about fractions, I'm talking about the reals because that it what op referred to
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I do what I always do: run to the trolley, then jump up and pull the emergency stop because I hate false dilemmas.
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Can I group the people into groups of 1, then 2, then 3 and so forth? When the trolley is done with the killing, it will have killed -1/12 people.