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Show Notes
- Ben and Josh discuss dead presidents, polluting the atmosphere to save the world, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, and more iterations of the trolley problem than you can shake a gauntlet at. It’s like chalk and cheese!
- Intro (0:00-14:53)
- Climate change and geoengineering (14:53-25:38)
- Think like a freak
- Geoengineering (Kurzgesagt)
- Budyko Blanket
- Do Anti-lock Brakes make you safer? (yes, less crashes; and no, worse crashes: NHTSA report)
- The Geopolitics of the Nile
- Bad at English (25:38-30:04)
- Chalk and Cheese (i.e. Apples and Oranges)
- The Trolley Problem (30:04-)
- TED TechEd
- The Good Place:
- Real life incident
- Online Games:
- Tesla Autopilot predicts CRASH(es)
- Examples on film
- Mr. Incredible thinks he sets up the trolley problem (he doesn’t)
- Spider Man faces the trolley problem (he rejects it)
- Neo faces the trolley problem (he rejects it)
- Ethan Hunt faces the trolley problem and shoots the hostage instead (!)
- ConEd Engineer faces the trolley problem and does as he’s told
- Batman faces the trolley problem (and finds out it did the opposite of what he intended!)
- Joker’s social expirement: convicts vs. regular joes (more game theory than trolley problem)
- Wanda pulls the lever (Thanos un-pulls it)
- Quill pulls the lever (but the trolley keeps going)
- Clint pulls the lever (and faces the consequences)
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