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[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bottom. No matter what your "real" number assignation in the queue is, theres an infinite number of people before the train gets to you. Therefore every single person will live a full life before the train reaches them.

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 13 hours ago

The zeroth person is dead. I don't know how the trolly finds the next one because there's always a smaller one than whatever it chooses

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What real number is he? There's infinity people before him too

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

This some Zeno shit, man

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

They too lived a full (very short) life.