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44 points

At some people you will run out of people to tie to the tracks.

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12 points

How many branches is that going to take? Just out of interest.

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46 points

Only 32

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26 points

math checks out. log2(8 billion) ~= 32.9

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2^33 is approximately 8.5 billion, which is roughly the population of the world.

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So the 32nd person decides to either kill half of humanity and end the scenario, or give someone the power to end human kind…

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4 points

Long before that, you’d run out of track to tie to the people.

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A later choice of nobody on each track would be ideal. Even a psycho at the switch would be unable to kill.

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I’d tie myself to the tracks tbh gotta end this cycle of suffering somehow 😩

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