CCC comments on Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CCC 19 October 2012 06:12:44PM 1 point [-]

It is murder, but you're going to have terrible trouble proving that (especially if he's careful about documenting how fair the russian roulette is). To avoid murder charges, the hypothetical psychopathic death-immune person can go so far as to arrange a tournament, with 2^n entries for some integer n. In this arrangement, one person must survive every round, and thus it does not look suspicious afterwards that he did survive every round (plus he gets 2^n prizes for going through n rounds).

I'm pretty sure that the russian roulette itself is illegal just about everywhere, though. No matter how it's done, it's either murder or assisted suicide.

Comment author: wedrifid 19 October 2012 08:05:13PM 0 points [-]

I'm pretty sure that the russian roulette itself is illegal just about everywhere, though. No matter how it's done, it's either murder or assisted suicide.

I would have expected a different label to apply. Neither of those seems accurate. In fact I didn't think even assisted suicide got called "assisted suicide".

Comment author: wedrifid 19 October 2012 10:38:23PM 0 points [-]

It is murder, but you're going to have terrible trouble proving that (especially if he's careful about documenting how fair the russian roulette is).

Or only enter other people's tournaments and have them document their own procedure.