endoself comments on Rationality Quotes: June 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MixedNuts 01 June 2011 09:37:14PM 23 points [-]

I care. If illness is abolished and a doctor of any age is starving, they can stay at my place and I'll feed them. Alternately, we could raise taxes slightly to finance government-mandated programs for training and reconversion of young doctors and early retirement for old doctors.

In other words: beware of though-mindedly accepting bad consequences of overall good policies. Look for a superior alternative first.

Comment author: endoself 01 June 2011 09:42:29PM *  3 points [-]

That can be a danger, but I think starvation is an obvious enough problem that people won't take this literally.