Rationality Quotes November 2012

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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

AFAIK yes. Up to 8 people.

Do you mean saving figuratively? (Also addressed at drethelin who used "save a life".)

Heart, lungs, liver, left kidney, right kidney = 5, and that's being generous.

Pancreas and corneas certainly improve quality of life, but aren't life savers. For skin grafts there's alternatives AFAIK.

Is there a stash of secret organs I'm missing?

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Does it means "8 people saved (for unspecified time)" or "the saved people gain 8 times as much QALYs as the donor lost"? AFAIK, the there are some problems with transplanted organs which require repeated medical attention and sometimes a lot of painkillers, so we convert X years of a healthy person to Y years of people with bad health. On the other hand, a person willing to follow this advice and kill themselves probably suffers from depression, so we should reduce their remaining years estimate by a probability of suicide (other than the specific one recommended in this thread).

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