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[RT][MK] The prisoner's trolley problem

• Author: u/GaBeRockKing Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857*

• URL: https://np.reddit.com/r/GoldandBlack/comments/5uag3p/introducing_the_prisoners_trolley_problem/?ref=share&ref_source=link

• Score: 2

• Created: 2017-02-16T05:13:42

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u/PeridexisErrant [+1] put aside fear for courage, and death for life*

This doesn't look like rational fiction to me - maybe post it in the off-topic or general rationality thread?

u/GaBeRockKing [+2] Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857*

Probably should have been tagged [D] instead of [RT], but I think this deserved its own thread on the basis that it was, after all, posted in its own thread to begin with.

u/GaBeRockKing [+0] Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857*

I noticed this while idly checking out /r/goldandblack and thought it was an interesting problem to solve. I took a stab here to try and figure it out with game theory, but I'm iffy about how well I did. What do you guys think?

u/IWantUsToMerge [+2] *

There's a solution none of the comments there seem to have come up with... why don't you just establish a state to enforce mutual cooperation?

u/GaBeRockKing [+2] Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857*

I actually addressed that-- option 3, the utilitarian God Emperor. Of course, that was posted in /r/GoldandBlack, the anarcho-capitalist subreddit, so I don't think they'll be particularly in favour :P.

u/IWantUsToMerge [+1] *

Ah, you're not from there? I was going to give you shit. An ancap would have talked about voluntary social contracts and enforcement organizations and then I would have told them "son, what you're describing there is a state", and then they would have been enlightened.

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