We still have Hummers. Aerodynamics isn’t everything.

I don’t want my car sending any data out to anywhere, that’s all. And all those features should be able to be manually disabled, because I personally am not a distracted or tired/drunk driver so I don’t need any of that stuff.

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Touch screens are cheaper, that’s why they did it.

Drugs, in this case.

My point was that needing more people is the root issue. So while I didn’t explicitly make your point, I do agree.

When multiple fields of science all agree, yeah they know what they’re talking about.

I just don’t get these anti-science types…

Within that finite set, one combination is the complete text of Hamlet.

Exactly. That’s the point.

This article fundamentally misunderstands the entire thought experiment by using finite monkeys. With infinite monkeys, we’d have the script as quickly as it is physically possible to type the script.

Doesn’t matter in the real infinite monkeys thought experiment. The chance of an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters producing Shakespeare is 100%. That’s how infinity works.

It’s really not that long, if we can’t get monkeys to write Shakespeare.

The probability of lots of things is zero. The probability of a monkey typing a Chinese character on an English keyboard is zero.

Similar idea: there are an infinite amount of numbers between zero and one, but none of those numbers is two.

That’s not bold, we’ve known how long the universe will last for decades now.

One of them is mathematically guaranteed to get the job done in time.

In fact - and here’s the trippy part - an infinite number of them is mathematically guaranteed to get the job done in time.

Hypothesis: every science journalist should be placed in front of a bitch-slapping machine for the rest of their career. Every time they think about writing an article, they get bitch slapped. This will greatly improve the quality of science journalism.

The whole point of the thought experiment is that you have infinite monkeys.

In your case, it’s because you often pretend to be dumber than you actually are, so I’m just playing along.

So you pulled the lever. End of thought experiment.

Yay! You made it!

Doesn’t matter. All YOU can do is pull the lever, or not. You can’t change who’s on the track. You can’t remove the trolley. You can’t untie the people or lift up the tracks. In this sense, the trolley problem is almost a 1-for-1 representation of voting (in a swing state, at least). You can pull the lever, or not. Those are your options.

And that is NOT how the trolley problem works. None of us tied anyone to the tracks. There’s no one else. There’s just people on the tracks, and a trolley, and a lever, and you. All of the set-up happened before you got there. You are only able to make a decision about the lever.