Dijkstra's Trolley Problem

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A white diagram is titled "Dijkstra's Trolley Problem" with the subtitle "Which path will you choose?" It shows a trolley track drawn as a dense graph: black rail segments connect many blue circular nodes, with a trolley starting at the far left and small human figures placed along many possible routes. The meme fuses the classic moral trolley problem with Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm, turning ethical choice into graph traversal and path-cost optimization. For experienced engineers, the humor is in reducing a messy human decision to an algorithmic routing problem with horrifying edge weights.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The ethical dilemma gets easier once you assign every casualty an edge weight and pretend the requirements came from product.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The ethical dilemma gets easier once you assign every casualty an edge weight and pretend the requirements came from product.
@ruslan_alive 5y

Lol
@Four_Velocity 5y

Let me complicate everything This tram carries organs for puppies for urgent transplantation. so that either he will kill a bunch of people by going along the shortest path in terms of distance, or he will go along the shortest path from the point of view of people on the radishes, but then not all puppies will have time to get their organs
@Artkash 5y

Gotta catch 'em all! LET'S GO GREEDY
@ruslan_alive 5y

"Euler's path" -> hilarious
@Four_Velocity 5y

Yes, but... Are all the puppies get their kidneys?
1. @Stepan_Poznyak 5y
  
  Ok...
@Stepan_Poznyak 5y

Now everyone is dead, everything perfect
1. @Four_Velocity 5y
  
  Really perfect solution
@Four_Velocity 5y

W8
@Four_Velocity 5y

YOU MISSED ONE
@Stepan_Poznyak 5y

Ou shit
@Stepan_Poznyak 5y

Even faster
1. @bit69tream 5y
  
  speedrun this
  
  @Stepan_Poznyak 5y
  
  Ахахахахах, хорошая идея
@Stepan_Poznyak 5y

Suck, stupid puppies
@Four_Velocity 5y

I'm satisfied But felling like a piece of sh*t
@Stepan_Poznyak 5y

Fuck, now one puppie still alive. Really hard problem
@Stepan_Poznyak 5y

It would be better to wait a scientific solution
@Four_Velocity 5y

No he isn't The tram was travelling 2 long and he is dead without donor kidney
@Stepan_Poznyak 5y

Yeaaaaa

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