scav comments on Rational Repentance - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Mass_Driver 14 January 2011 09:37AM

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Comment author: scav 17 January 2011 09:37:29AM -1 points [-]

Unconvincing. You haven't demonstrated that torture will result in the best outcome, even in a hypothetical situation where the participants are already Doing It Badly Wrong.

Comment author: Vaniver 17 January 2011 10:27:19AM 0 points [-]

He did demonstrate that bgaesop's reported fact applies in a limited domain, and that torture supposedly has other uses.