AdeleneDawner comments on New Year's Predictions Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 01 January 2010 04:35:45PM * 1 point [-]

Is there a standard method for assigning a numerical value to liberties?

Comment author: randallsquared 01 January 2010 10:16:44PM 2 points [-]

The money those people would pay to avoid the loss of liberty, had they the option.

Comment author: James_K 02 January 2010 07:38:13AM 2 points [-]

That's a valid measure, but it would require a fairly complicated study to actually get a value for it.

Comment author: Technologos 02 January 2010 07:43:34AM 1 point [-]

And it's complicated by loss aversion.

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