ata comments on Dying Outside - Less Wrong

179 Post author: HalFinney 05 October 2009 02:45AM

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Comment author: ata 06 October 2009 02:02:39AM 13 points [-]

It was at the Summit. He was using the example of... I forgot the percentages, but if five people witness someone having an epileptic seizure, it is less likely that they will get help than if only one person witnesses it.

So he pointed to a random person in the audience and directed them to save the world, instead of directing that mandate at the audience as a whole.