army1987 comments on Miracle Mineral Supplement - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 November 2012 09:17PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 November 2012 01:51:14PM 0 points [-]

technically

That sounds like a strawman to me... Has anyone actually proposed that as a technical definition of “cure”? If I had to come up with one, I'd use “die after more QALYs than you would have without the treatment”.

Comment author: Decius 21 November 2012 05:49:01PM 0 points [-]

Poe's law.