Oscar_Cunningham comments on The Empty White Room: Surreal Utilities - Less Wrong
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Eh? Do you mean you wouldn't make the trade at any probability? That would be weird; everyone makes decisions every day that put other people in small probabilities of danger.
Well of course. That's why I put this in a white room.
(Also, just because I should choose something doesn't mean I'm actually rational enough to choose it.)
Assuming I am perfectly rational (*cough* *cough*) in the real world, the decision I'm actually making is "some fraction of myself living" versus "small probability of someone else dying."