shminux comments on Problem of Optimal False Information - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Endovior 15 October 2012 09:42PM

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Comment author: shminux 19 October 2012 03:20:09PM 0 points [-]

SMBC comics has a relevant strip: would you take a pill to ease your suffering when such a suffering no longer serves any purpose? (The strip goes for the all-or-nothing approach, but anything milder than that can be gamed by a Murder-Gandhi slippery slope).