A NSW Highway Patrol BMW was speeding through back streets of Western Sydney when it drove through a give way stop and collided with a Honda Jazz.
Notice how the police lights went on after the impact.
Fail to give way, reckless driving, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle etc - Pay up NSW Govt!
Both questions actually describe the same scenario when broken down, restoring a person who has died.
Yet when the person has just died, almost everyone supports revival (96%). When the person has been dead a long time, almost everyone rejects it (91%).
The only thing that changed was time since death.
That means there must be some invisible line where a death becomes “too old” to reverse.
But where exactly is that line?
One hour? One day? One year? One century?
This is an example of the Sorites paradox, the philosophical problem of vague boundaries.
Just as we cannot say exactly when grains of sand become a heap, we cannot clearly define when a person becomes “too dead” to bring back.
Now we're moving closer to the world of AGI, where who knows what is possible.. these paradoxes get forever more interesting..