wedrifid comments on Rationality & Criminal Law: Some Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 20 June 2010 11:44:21AM 3 points [-]

Indeed. There are far fewer innocent people forced into prisons than there are innocent children forced into schools.

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Comment author: simplicio 20 June 2010 02:09:58PM 3 points [-]

If we had to make a list of social utility losses, I think that the Justice system would be low down.

I agree. I'm not actually arguing that criminal justice is especially flawed, only that it has some very interesting flaws.

Comment author: wedrifid 20 June 2010 12:16:46PM 1 point [-]

Or, well, not spending half of the GDP on existential risk mitigation...

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Comment author: wedrifid 20 June 2010 01:03:30PM *  1 point [-]

Really x-risk mitigation is for dessert, though. There are so many failures of our society that are lower-hanging in terms of how rational you have to be to see them.

I'd say it is more "so you get to dessert"! There as a backup behind "create an FAI and thereby cure death". (So I'm being a bit reckless and blurring my categories when I put Xrisk at 50%.)

That $10b on life extension sounds about right!

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Comment author: wedrifid 20 June 2010 03:19:14PM *  0 points [-]

For deleted context of parent please refer to grand-aunt. (Courtesy of a bizarre bug somewhere in which every comment and PM reply of mine was being posted twice and, evidently, fast response by Roko.)

ETA: And I agree with parent.

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