• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    You’d also have to consider the value of the lives saved by not sending the train to the 5 person track.

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      2 months ago

      I thought that information would be encoded when you assign -5 to it (value of the outcome of losing 5 lives) and -1 for 1 life lose doing nothing.

      But the logic would be doing something and saving life is a plus, doing something and getting more people killed is a huge negative

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        2 months ago

        So basically, you’re saying that the two tracks with people tied to them are valued at -1 and -5, while the empty tracks have some positive non-zero value?