gwern comments on The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 12 February 2010 05:42:33PM 2 points [-]

I read this not as a genuine plea to nuke Africa,

Oh, of course not. At least, not until I've crunched some numbers.

but as a Robin Hanson-esque caution against motivated thinking

Quite right. It's fun to use logical arguments to wind up in a uncomfortable place.

I'm obviously super-persuasive, since it's gone from downvoted to upvoted since my comment :-)

Obviously, if you get the same number of up-votes as the original paradox/comment! ;_;