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“I have no mouth but I must scream” by Harlan Ellison is about an AI that’s kept a small group of humans alive indefinitely to torture them.

No trolley problems exactly, but people do make painful choices in the story.

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That’s what I was thinking of, but it’s millions of people and they’re all whittling their own numbers down via being forced to participate in increasingly outlandish trolley variations.

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ooh, and what if it was simulating their consciousnesses and torturing them endlessly for previously failing to help bring about its existence?

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That’s just capitalism

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Wasn’t that a black mirror episode too?

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