Societal Trolley Problems: What concepts (Social Media/Porn/AI/etc) will Manifold run over in their trolley?
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resolved May 22
Resolved
YES
Left Track: Twitter (NO) - Right Track: Facebook (YES)
Resolved
YES
Left Track: Religion (NO) - Right Track: Opioids (YES)
Resolved
NO
Left track: Social Media(NO) - Right Track: Pornography(YES)
Resolved
NO
Left Track: Artificial Intelligence (NO) - Right Track: Nuclear Energy/Weapons (YES)
Resolved
NO
Left Track: Death by Aging (NO) - Right Track: Death by Disease (YES)
Resolved
NO
Left Track: Unjust War (NO) - Right Track: Unjustified Crime (YES)
Resolved
NO
Left Track: Global poverty (NO) - Right Track: A 50% cut to their disposable income (YES)

Previously:

/Joshua/what-will-manifold-want-to-ban-most

The Societal Trolley is heading towards two grand problems, on two metaphorical tracks. The problem it runs over is magically erased from the current world. People know it existed, but none of them will miss it and nothing like it will ever come into existence again.

If you hold YES in an option, that is a vote to destroy the thing on the right track. If you hold NO in an option, that is a vote to destroy the thing on the left track. It doesn't matter how many shares you hold, everyone gets one vote. This includes bots.

The market will close each week and I will check each option to see if there is a clear majority vote, and resolve the options for which there is. The market then re-opens for another week.

You can submit any trolley problems you think would be fun for this. If people trade on your trolley problem, you'll get trader bonuses/fees! You should try to submit options that are tough to decide on, as this will probably get you more traders. I reserve the right to N/A answers for quality control.

See also: /Joshua/societal-problems-trolley-problems

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Left track: Social Media(NO) - Right Track: Pornography(YES)

A tie!

Gonna try to do this this weekend finally

@Joshua Oh whoops actually I mixed this up with the the one about my friends, and forgot to resolve it last week. I'll resolve it as the criteria state this sunday.