army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes December 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 December 2012 11:27:12AM 2 points [-]

In principle, yes. In practice, it would be very hard to tell how many more crimes per year, divided per X, there would be if counterfactually the police's budget was reduced by $X/year all other things being equal (looking at how other countries are doing will have huuuge confounding effects), and I suspect most people would overestimate that.