I followed the link from the comment here to the Absurd Trolley Problems. These were pretty cool.
The whole webpage is full of great stuff.
My personal favorite is The Password Game.
I guess that many of you already know about this page, but it was new to me!
P.S. For more discussion of the trolley problem, indeed probably much more than you could possibly want, you can read this post from a few years ago.
I followed the same link, and was also amused / impressed.
It reminds me this wonderful trolley problem video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4 .
If anyone is curious, this is how a two year old solves the Trolley Problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4
Did you finish the password game? I’ve only ever seen on person do it, with a whole stream helping him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al9TaMl_LvE
The website below is an amusing look at the trolley problem. It claims that there is an easy solution despite the lengthy URL:
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-fc-5615&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-5615&hspart=fc¶m1=7¶m2=eJwtjs1qhDAUhV8lyxaSeO81MWpW9scHKF31ksWgjoSZ0UFrHfr0JdLN4cB34Hxj7NmHjzcEsHlesQwT%2B0AEFliGxFiGjn2oqgTjPVFwmshqNIVGSyzDOMzsw7ayDNuJfbjNv%2FF6PWVWg3ja49TP%2Byqmb4GgwYs9ToXx4pFi%2BakxNxqexTh0lzkjQAAEFOe4DOf5kR00Pa%2Fx32Zbh%2BXozjVtmb%2BCerGuVYjvraoaIoVtgSW5xmFj0r7rD2kyCklB%2BYlFjaZGoy2Zrz9Oa0eY&p=freakonomics+and+the+trolley+problem+answer&type=fc_A26C40E4505_s58_g_e_d_n22050_c999#id=7&vid=c4c2b319766eecee5fd9c08a45a557ff&action=view
If the people are drugged so they won’t feel anything and the engine is muffled so no one will hear anything, is it a gentle, silent trolley problem?
Oh, no! A trolley is heading for five people. Do you click one of the buttons and keep answering a seemingly endless stream of trolley problems, or do you finally close the web site and be left wondering whether there were only two or three trolley problems left and you should have just stuck with it?
[I decided I’d quit once the number of people answering dropped below 5M. That strategy worked well.]
FOMT
Trolley Problem: The trolley is rolling down the track and headed for Luigi Mangione. He will die if you do nothing. You can save him by pulling a switch, but if you do the trolley will roll down a different track and kill all the billionaires in Trump’s orbit. What do you do?