Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for March 12, 2023

Exactly!

Next he’ll save Shrodinger’s Cat by taking it out of the box!

Love them all (but still like the elevator jokes the most…)

Sometimes they think you’re off your trolley but than again…it’s the easiest solutions which are the best

I always click ‘like’ just for the topper. There should be a separate ‘like’ just for that, and another for the main Sunday strip.

Then along came Horace, slow walkin’ Horace…

That track appears to be a loop … so throwing the lever might not make any difference.

The “Trolley Problem” (and its predecessor the “Lifeboat Problem”) are philosophic remnants of the medieval view of this world as a doomed place where humans are fated to suffer. The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the founding of the pursuit-of-happiness United States put a dent in the ancient fatalism, but it’s hard to stamp out thousands of years of doom-and-gloom thinking.

Horace the Hero Horse

C1 – Horace skipped reading the directions…!

C2 – indeed Anonymous does live on as one of the great philosophers…!

C3 – so Hource musta been reading about “The Trolly Problem” on Wikipedia…. Somehow he found a happy ending and can now get a good night’s sleep…!

I got in a great deal of trouble, in elementary school, with that problem. My solution was throw the switch 1/2 way and derail the train. The teacher talked with my parents and told them I wasn’t able to think the problem through and explain the “correct” answer. 20 years later I earned my mechanical engineering degree.

AI: Why are you asking me these crazy ethical questions? Who would be so insane as to create these situations?

Humans: ….

Dilemma Solver Side of the Horse

Horace’s ego just jumped to 100% ……ok ok enough worshipping. Go about your daily lives….come on…move it, move it, move it!

Best solution to a dilema I’ve EVER seen!!

I so love this strip! Should be in my local papers

…I thought the trolley was supposed to be a runaway trolley…because if the driver could just stop it whenever they wanted, then why is this even a problem to begin with?

Kobayashi Maru and a certain James T. Kirk hacking the computer.

Horace is off his trolly.

“Everybody knew me.” – Ibid

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.