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I'd do it out of scientific curiosity. (feddit.org)

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[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

People can die on the trolley,

Also you're assuming the collatz conjecture.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

If someone dies due to extraneous circumstances, they would die either way so it doesn't have to factor into your considerations on whether or not to pull the lever.

And while I haven't done a geometric proof to show that for all odd numbers, it will eventually reduce to one, I've worked out the sets for every odd number up to twenty and the pattern holds. While that's not rigorous enough for a theorem, it's good enough for me.