satt comments on Is suicide high-status? - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Stabilizer 12 February 2013 09:41AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 13 February 2013 07:51:11PM -1 points [-]

How small is small? If the chance would be p=0.001 that the post kills someone, is that small?

Comment author: satt 13 February 2013 09:37:21PM 0 points [-]

How small is small?

Fair question. I'd expect an LW post & discussion of similar size to this one to cause 10^-3 to 10^-4 suicides, but I might now be anchoring on your reply. (Also, that expected value only counts one side of the ledger; I'm ignoring the possibility of the discussion discouraging people from committing suicide.)

If the chance would be p=0.001 that the post kills someone, is that small?

To me, it feels big, in the sense of disproportionate, but small in absolute terms.