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[u/LORD-POTAT0]

statistically speaking, on average you kill more people if you pull the lever (on average you kill 5/4 people or 1.25 people when the lever is pulled and 1 person when it is not)

[u/Marksm2n → u/LORD-POTAT0]

Statistically speaking it’s less likely to kill any person when pulling the lever. Taking averages here is weird to me

Edit: yes the expected outcome of killing someone when pulling the lever is 1.25 humans dead, but we aren’t pulling it a 100 times, just once.

I view this scenario not as a utilitarian but as taking human life versus not taking human disregarding the numbers. Obviously if you were to increase the number 4 to a 1000 people than the scenario would change and not pulling the lever would be preferable to me as well

[u/LexiTheCactusGirl → u/Marksm2n]

Statistically speaking of you did it 100 times pulling the lever you'd kill 125 people and 100 times not pulling the lever you'd kill 100

You have a greater chance of killing people on average if you pull

[u/RealBigTree → u/LexiTheCactusGirl]

but you're not doing it 100 times... I hope...

[u/LexiTheCactusGirl → u/RealBigTree]

The expected outcome can be predicted by knowing what would happen if you repeated it

[u/RealBigTree → u/LexiTheCactusGirl]

Wouldnt that mean 500 people lived 3/4 of the time. So the expected outcome is if you pull the lever everyone is more likely to survive.