As far as I can tell, she means “Better that everyone involved dies as long as you follow some arbitrary condition I just made up, than that most people live but the arbirary condition is not satisfied.” Do you really want to make your moral decisions like this?
The whole problem is that everything is framed in moral terminology.
The trolley problem really isn’t any different from the prisoner’s dilemma with regard to human nature.
On one side there is the game theoretic pareto-suboptimal solution that a rational agent would choose and on the other side there is human nature.
Human nature and game theory are incompatible.
To cooperate or not to push the fat guy are human values.
Academic models like game theory are memes that discard complex human values and replace them with simple equilibria between agents carrying the same memes.
The whole problem is that everything is framed in moral terminology.
The trolley problem really isn’t any different from the prisoner’s dilemma with regard to human nature.
On one side there is the game theoretic pareto-suboptimal solution that a rational agent would choose and on the other side there is human nature.
Human nature and game theory are incompatible.
To cooperate or not to push the fat guy are human values.
Academic models like game theory are memes that discard complex human values and replace them with simple equilibria between agents carrying the same memes.