dfranke comments on Off Topic Thread: May 2009 - Less Wrong

0 Post author: MBlume 05 May 2009 08:36PM

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Comment author: dfranke 06 May 2009 10:22:55PM *  0 points [-]

Basically the amount you'd expect: if medical technology allowed me to regrow the finger with full use of it, that would mitigate it considerably. With current technology, it gets me a lifetime of inconvenience.

At the level of loss of a fingernail, I think the answer is a no-brainer: (a) gets me considerably less total pain, with both options protracted over a period of time that makes time preference mostly inconsequential (24 hours, and maybe a couple weeks); getting a fingernail ripped off isn't a bad enough experience to have any significant long-term impact on my mental state.