timtyler comments on Safety Culture and the Marginal Effect of a Dollar - Less Wrong

23 Post author: jimrandomh 09 June 2011 03:59AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 09 June 2011 03:13:15PM 2 points [-]

However, I really don't think think the difference is whole orders of magnitude

GuySrinivasan's comment seems to suggest that the estimated marginal effect of a dollar could be at least 2 orders of magnitude smaller if additional considerations are taken into account. See "down by a factor of 10" and "10%-50% that being safety conscious works".