#todo
A famous ethical problem
list of variations
an MIT project of crowdsourced philosophy aiming to understand the trolley problem through the lens of AI vehicles
A good way to really hit home with moral dilemmas is to modify them slightly to mess with whatever implicit moral theory someone is using to solve them. Aka mess with a utilitarian by turning the trolley problem into the fat man problem
Ostensibly the DDE can explain the difference between the trolley problem and the fat man problem since you don’t intend to kill with the trolley problem.
For example, you can tell people what the right or wrong answer is in the trolley problem, or you can help them break down the various factors and let them come to their own conclusion.
Brings up an interesting variation of the trolley problem, the Churchill problem
Another name for the original trolley problem
A variation of the trolley problem:
Further discusses intuitionism as the decider between the trolley problem and fat man problem
