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WhyIDie , in Int and bool walk into a bar

why yes, I feel like I want temperature this time

WhyIDie , in I know 69 languages

and Nice isn’t one of them

FiniteLooper , in Int and bool walk into a bar

And then someone comes over who isn’t a programmer and they have to take a shower:

Error: cannot convert “warm” to integer

kronkadoops , in Recursion

Someone needs to stop tying people to those train tracks or this trolley problem will never go away.

ImpossibleRubiksCube , in Recursion

Well that’s just GREAT. Now we’re all out of memory.

lugal , in Recursion

There is one person in danger.

Now I pull the lever.

Now there are two _______

blujan ,

person in dangers

lugal ,

I’m afraid you failed the wug test, or rather one of many wugs test.

metrolw , in Recursion

Choosing the second option will trap an infinite people for eternity in this problem, because it would never stop

Occupier8633 ,

You should only be released once someone decides to let all of their track people die.

Anticorp ,

Oh I promise you it’ll stop, just with a greater death toll. It probably wouldn’t take that long to stop either.

CannotSleep420 , in Recursion

What is the base case for this?

cloudy1999 , in Recursion

If we keep doubling, will I eventually be a person on the tracks? There are a finite number of people, so eventually I would be, right? So, passing the buck would be equivalent to handing my fate to a stranger.

OTOH, if there are an infinite number of people, then this thought experiment is creating people out of thin air. Do these imaginary people’s rhetorical lives even matter?

Either way, it seems better to kill 1 person at the start.

ActuallyRuben ,

If it creates infinite number of people, it could solve world hunger with some good ol’ Soylent green thinking. Although you might want to figure out how to slow down the trolley at some point.

damnthefilibuster , in Recursion

Damn. That’s the politician way of thinking!!!

dragnucs , in e = error in syntax

Very hard to spot.

Sigmatics , in Would you agree?

So you mean we would have weird useless concrete structures everywhere? I doubt it

superbirra , in Would you agree?

but GNU?

QuazarOmega ,

It’s just that nobody gnu

jhulten , in Would you agree?

All monocultures suck.

cyber_kalashnikov , in Would you agree?
@cyber_kalashnikov@lemmygrad.ml avatar

You mean GNU Kernel?

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