robzahra comments on Readiness Heuristics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hrishimittal 15 June 2009 11:35:18AM *  0 points [-]

The True Trolley Dilemma would be where the child is Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Then what would you do?

EDIT: Sorry if that sounds trollish, but I meant it as a serious question.

Comment author: robzahra 16 June 2009 04:42:15PM 1 point [-]

Shutting up and multiplying, answer is clearly to save eliezer...and do so versus a lot more people than just three...question is more interesting if you ask people what n (probably greater than 3) is their cut off point.