Lilian Delaveau (h/acc)
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Lilian Delaveau (h/acc)
@LilianDelaveau
CTO & cofounder | AI accelerationist | Shitposting about math, alignment & tech 💜 | Husband | Paris, France










This situation depends on being 100% sure everyone down the line is making the good choice but not only that. Someone could misunderstand, or simply trip on the lever. And let’s be clear: it’ll happen. A psychopath, an elderly, someone intoxicated or just having a bad day. You should minimize suffering by pulling the lever. While it doesn’t change the outcome, the reasoning also depends on the game getting back to 1 after choosing to kill or the game stopping. In the second case, kill ASAP, it’s the minimum person to be killed. In the first, it’s actually a choice of linear versus exponential killing series, so if choice and situation is to be made in fixed time, always kill even one person (only the 1 -> 2 transition is free so if we want to lift the burden of culpability you can skip one and kill 2 and it’s still linear). So, in the worst case, you should still pull and hope many people pull. If time isn’t a factor here, the daemon putting us to choice just wants everyone dead so do whatever you want, linear or not, it’s a genocidal hyper task.

This situation depends on being 100% sure everyone down the line is making the good choice but not only that. Someone could misunderstand, or simply trip on the lever. And let’s be clear: it’ll happen. A psychopath, an elderly, someone intoxicated or just having a bad day. You should minimize suffering by pulling the lever. While it doesn’t change the outcome, the reasoning also depends on the game getting back to 1 after choosing to kill or the game stopping. In the second case, kill ASAP, it’s the minimum person to be killed. In the first, it’s actually a choice of linear versus exponential killing series, so if choice and situation is to be made in fixed time, always kill even one person (only the 1 -> 2 transition is free so if we want to lift the burden of culpability you can skip one and kill 2 and it’s still linear). So, in the worst case, you should still pull and hope many people pull. If time isn’t a factor here, the daemon putting us to choice just wants everyone dead so do whatever you want, linear or not, it’s a genocidal hyper task.




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