• LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I am not seeing it. Are you saying the last person chooses between killing nobody and killing the entire population? Also, what about the intermediary likelihoods of pulling the lever?

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      1 month ago

      They choose between half the whole population and the whole population (very roughly as it aligns alongside exponents of 2)

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        1 month ago

        That’s what the meme is. But the user’s calculation multiplies 1-x by 0, not 1-x by half the population. Or by the future expected value.