impromptublue comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 28, chapter 99-101 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: palladias 12 December 2013 05:10AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2013 05:57:22AM 0 points [-]

That's true, but unicorns are immortal, and they have to be killed in order to give a human a few more years of life. Presumably some number of horse-years are worth a human-year; horses aren't quite so negligibly intelligent that the life-value of infinite horse-years converges to zero.

Comment author: somervta 13 December 2013 07:52:48AM 1 point [-]

perhaps, but the unicorns don't actually have infinite life-spans.

Comment author: Alsadius 13 December 2013 10:03:50PM 2 points [-]

Well yes, because people keep vamping on them.