smoofra comments on Revisiting torture vs. dust specks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: smoofra 09 July 2009 05:49:49AM -1 points [-]

Yup. I get all that. I still want to go for the specs.

Perhaps it has to do with the fact that 3^^^3 is way more people than could possibly exist. Perhaps the specs v. torture hypothetical doesn't actually matter. I don't know. But I'm just not convinced.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 July 2009 07:22:16AM 5 points [-]

Yup. I get all that. I still want to go for the specs.

Just give up already! Intuition isn't always right!