• Isoprenoid@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    depending on the context

    This is exactly why these trolley problems don’t work. When we strip away all context and ask simplified questions the nuance disappears and the question becomes almost meaningless.

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      9 months ago

      That’s why I think these are mostly nonsense. These types of questions aren’t philosophical, they’re psychological. They don’t teach anything, they just test what you value, and they’re not the best types of questions for doing that either.