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I don't know anything about ethics, but after reading this I'm glad we don't have trolleys going around killing people anymore.

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Do not engage. Ta, Dok.

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As yes, my arthritic fingers and not proof-raeding messed me up.I've never been there but heard enough about it.It was just a Pittsburgh reference off the top of my head...

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Au contraire!Driver killed when pickup struck by trolley in Barrio Logan (San Diego - Dec.10, 2022)

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Crabalocker fishwife pornographic priestess?

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Thank you for describing chatGPT as just doing math and not "thinking". Drives me nuts when people want to talk about AI trying to take over the world based on a program doing equations.

Skynet, this ain't.

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Yeah, but our "trolley" is called an electric train everywhere else.

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I live in New York state and I have always heard it called a trolley, just as San Diego doe calls it. Philadelphia has trolleys too.Maybe in what some call flyover country they call it electirc trains, but in the hip, cool, with it towns they are trolleys.

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That's a Poe!

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To be fair, I used to live in Philly, and do not recall it being hip, cool, or with it. But it did have trolleys.

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Like Wolf Blitzer? No thanks.

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It's such a stupid problem. When do you have to decide is never considered. Perhaps you could time it just right to put the switch halfway at the exact precise moment that causes a derailment?

Because it's all just some intrinsically limited mind wankery invented by someone likely looking for an excuse to daydream about murdering people.

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there's an inverse function

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Acting at all confers culpability

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"That's one hell of a catch, that Catch 22."

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The old "therapist" was named ELIZA and yeah: ChatGPT is not metaphysically in a different category from ELIZA, just more intricate in its formulations. It does not "understand" anything it is composing.

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