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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 04 March 2014 03:26:33AM 0 points [-]

Username explicitly linked to torture vs. dust specks as a case where it makes sense to use torture as an example. Username is just objecting to using torture for general decision theory examples where there's no particular reason to use that example.