Eugine_Nier comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 28 November 2012 03:56:04AM 4 points [-]

Implicit in Szabo's argument is that you may be doing the equivalent of picking up pennies on railroad tracks.

Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 20 February 2013 06:13:40AM 3 points [-]

I like that metaphor, but, you know, decision under uncertainty: we're on the railroad tracks already, and I'm going to pick up as much free money as I think I can get away with, because I no longer trust the schoolteachers and cops who taught me to sit still and wait for the train.