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Comment author: [deleted] 28 June 2012 12:39:33PM 3 points [-]

and also, I would likely take 1/3^^^3 chance of torture over a dust speck. Why? Because dust speck may result in an accident leading up to decades of torturous existence

IIRC, in the original torture vs specks post EY specified that none of the dust specks would have any long-term consequence.

Comment author: private_messaging 28 June 2012 12:58:24PM 0 points [-]

I know. Just wanted to point out where the personal preference (easily demonstrable when people e.g. neglect to take inconvenient safety measures) of small chance of torture vs definite dust speck comes from.

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