• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    The cat thing was designed to be as absurd as possible to heckle Bohr and Heisenburg.

    Similarly, Freeman Dyson’s Dyson sphere paper was a work of satire, to poke fun at how ridiculous the idea was. He got stuck with it anyway.

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      9 hours ago

      same with the trolley problem. it’s supposed to be so obvious, like asking someone ‘if your friend jumped off a cliff, would you?’ that it shows that it is moral to choose the lesser of two evils. it wasn’t designed to be a debate