Jev Meets the Trolley Problem

Hey, I'm Zach, the author of this. I had this idea as soon as Jev appeared: how would Jev and other decision models handle the Trolley Problem? So I ran Jev and 13 other models through many different versions of the question.

I used resampling and multiple variations and orderings of each question so a random lucky phrasing wouldn't dominate the result.

Happy to chat about the philosophical side of the article, strategies for prompting decision models, or anything on the methodology.

After the neat animations I was disappointed not to see that leftmost person die because the server fell on them in the last example.

Would people really pull the level to save 5 people? It seems to me like the default would be to just do nothing, stand by and record what happens with your phone.