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75 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 09 May 2010 05:53AM

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Comment author: steven0461 10 May 2010 09:25:20PM 2 points [-]

e.g. think that destruction of the world is OK, but be horrified by the death of a particular person

This seems like exactly the sort of attitude that would disappear in any reasonable preference extrapolation algorithm.