wedrifid comments on Just Lose Hope Already - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 February 2007 12:39AM

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Comment author: shokwave 12 January 2011 01:53:32PM 0 points [-]

I already noted that Eliezer was not specific enough to support that redefinition. I was offering an alternate course of action for Eliezer to take.

Comment author: wedrifid 13 January 2011 06:49:26AM 1 point [-]

That would certainly be a more reasonable position. (Except, obviously, where the payoffs were commensurably large. That obviously doesn't happen often. Situations like "3 weeks to live, can't afford cryonics are the only kind of exception that spring to mind.")