• Agamemnon
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    411 months ago

    Ah… but what when he actually liked the job he was doing? Presenting binary choices with leverthrowing might sound like a strange hobby to have, but I don’t judge. Unfortunately, the discarded levers from the scrapyard don’t really scratch that itch the same way… they must be connected to something consequential. But without switches to switch Mr. Leverpuller had to get creative: Thus the trolley problem variant with the fat man on a bridge became one of his more infamous later works.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      He has now been able to transfer his lever pulling expertise into operating guillotines for the Uber rich.