If all of humanity is tied to the track then who operates the lever and what's on the tram that we're worrying about saving?
Who or what tied the last member of society to the track.No, let me guess, it was something controlled by the brains in the jars.
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Thu 22 Jan 2026, 15:24,
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The AI robots of course.Pull the lever, my beautiful robots!
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree,
Thu 22 Jan 2026, 15:33,
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That's way better than the actual answerwhich is that this is reply to a trolley problem where the lever either kills the tied up people or doubles the number of tied up people for the next player.
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Andy_R At the third stroke, the time will be precisely,
Thu 22 Jan 2026, 15:44,
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You are the product of the imagination of a brain in a jarattempting to abstract the problem presented to it in its own reality, itself the product of another brain in a jar, and so on.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede,
Thu 22 Jan 2026, 15:55,
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*Up.We are evidently not brains in jars, therefore we probably exist at the bottom of this particular imagined reality hierarchy.
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Thu 22 Jan 2026, 16:28,
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I refuse to believe that Rob would prevent a Brain in a Jar having an account on here.
..Which could be an example of a computational limitation set on us by the low-hierarchy imaginary brain-in-a-jar responsible for simulating this, the worst of all realities. brb Monkhouse Stampede,
Thu 22 Jan 2026, 16:52,
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