private_messaging comments on Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

46 Post author: lukeprog 10 July 2012 11:20PM

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Comment author: private_messaging 11 July 2012 04:11:39PM *  2 points [-]

How many possible universes could here be (what % of the universes), where not donating to a charity that does not do accounting right when pulling in 500 grand a year, would result in destruction of mankind? 500 grand a year is not so little when you can get away with it. My GF's family owns a company smaller than that (in the US) and it has books in order.

Comment author: homunq 23 July 2012 04:41:30PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, that would be really unfair, wouldn't it? And so it's hard to believe it could be true. And so it must not be.

(I actually don't believe it is likely to be true. But the fact it sounds silly and unfairly out-of-proportion is one of the worst possible arguments against it.)