ciphergoth comments on The Pleasures of Rationality - Less Wrong

16 Post author: lukeprog 28 October 2011 02:35AM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 31 October 2011 10:59:19AM 1 point [-]

To ensure people don't defect when they discover they've lost the lottery, you'd have to play lethal injection Russian Roulette.

Comment author: Emile 31 October 2011 11:11:12AM 4 points [-]

The optimal system would probably be one where ten victi, uh, candidates around the world are simultaneously given a sleeping pill, attached to a machine with a breathing tube, and once they are a sleep a central server under high scrutiny randomly triggers death on one of the machines; upon waking up, the survivors are given their money.

OK, I think this thread is creepy enough now.