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Ⅲ · Cyber Ethics & Machine Dread
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A runaway trolley barrels toward two tracks. Straight track: 5 sleepers hooked into brain-computer interfaces, floating in sensory tanks of dopamine paradise—impact would be instantaneous and painless. Curved track: 1 conscious nine-to-fiver who rides a suffocating morning subway, gets chewed out by bosses, and bleeds real tears. Five painless synthetic utopias versus one agonizing, living heartbeat. What do you do?