rkyeun comments on Schelling fences on slippery slopes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rkyeun 08 August 2013 06:57:51AM * 2 points [-]

And Ghandi spoke, "I will pay you a million dollars to invent a pill that makes me 1% more pacifist."

Comment author: linkhyrule5 23 August 2013 06:21:24AM * 0 points [-]

He'd lose money. 1.01 * 0.99 = 0.9999 < 1. Or in general, (1+x)(1-x)=1-x^2 < 1

Comment author: rkyeun 27 August 2013 05:20:04PM * 1 point [-]

And having never taken the first pill, he'd be glad to lose it to take the second pill.