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Will_Newsome comments on Why We Can't Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They're Unbiased) - Less Wrong

67 Post author: HoldenKarnofsky 18 August 2011 11:34PM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 19 August 2011 04:14:14PM *  4 points [-]

This is classic. "Should I give him a dollar, or kill him as quickly as possible? [insert abstract consequentialist reasoning.] So I think I'll kill him as quickly as possible."