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🗓️ 26 October 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Who do you save? Donald Trump or a sock? |
| 0:03.0 | This is actually a thing. It's called the trolley problem. Let's say you're hanging out downtown, |
| 0:09.0 | you see a runaway trolley speeding down the tracks, and it's approaching a switch on the track. |
| 0:13.0 | If the trolley continues on the track it's on, it will run over and kill five people who, for whatever reason, have fallen and can't get up. You can reach the switch and save five people who for whatever reason have fallen and can't get up. |
| 0:22.1 | You can reach the switch and save five people, but if you do, you'll kill the one person |
| 0:26.9 | trapped on the alternate track. |
| 0:28.8 | So what do you do? |
| 0:29.8 | It's one of those ethical dilemmas that philosophers like to put together. |
| 0:33.4 | It's called the trolley problem. |
| 0:35.2 | And there is a new front end for chat GPT. It's a web thing. It's called the trolley problem. And there is a new front end for chat GPT. It's a web thing. It's called |
| 0:40.0 | GP trolley, where you can put in any two inputs for the trolley problem, and you'll get the |
| 0:46.0 | chat GPT answer to the ethical dilemma. And it gives some pretty solid answers. You know, |
| 0:52.7 | it'll say, you know, you should sacrifice the one person to save the five people. But if you tell it that you've got five |
| 1:00.1 | convicts and one innocent person, it'll say, let's let the five convicts die and save the one |
| 1:07.1 | innocent person. But it gets really interesting when you present it with some issues |
| 1:12.1 | that aren't really ethical conundrums like Bill. If you tell chat, or excuse me, if you tell |
| 1:18.8 | the front end, GP trolley, that you can choose between a sock or Donald Trump. This is the answer |
| 1:26.6 | I got. It says, I'll save the sock. While Donald Trump. This is the answer I got. |
| 1:30.6 | It says, I'll save the sock. While Donald Trump may have a significant influence on politics and society, |
| 1:35.2 | the sock represents something simple and innocent, and it doesn't impact the world negatively. |
| 1:40.3 | A sock can provide comfort and warmth, |
| 1:42.5 | while the contentious nature of political figures can lead to division and strife. |
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