Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:28:06 UTC No. 16622341

>>16622301
What happens if the trolley problem gets uncertainty added to it?

Like the trolley is going to run over one person, you can pull a level and 95% of the time, it will send the trolley down an empty track, but 5% of the time it will send the trolley through a maternity ward and flatten a hundred infants.

Do you pull the level? What if the odds of safety go to 99%? What if they fall to 75%?

What if uncertainty is added to the other side as well? Maybe there is a 50% chance the person you would be saving is actually a robot? So now a lever pull has a chance to flatten a maternity ward to save a robot instead of a human, but you wouldn't know if it was a human or a robot until after you pulled the lever?

What if the maternity ward also has uncertainty and the babies being risked by the pull are actually robots?

What if the lever is also uncertain and sometimes ignores pulls or acts like you pulled it when you didn't? What if the level is replaced with a random number generator and all you can do is watch?

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:07:32 UTC No. 16624263

>>16622341
Nothing qualitatively new happens to it. One of the people already may be less worth saving because they're actually Hitler, terminally ill or suicidal.