CarlShulman comments on Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong
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There isn't for agents in general, but most humans will in fact trade off probabilities of big bads (death, torture, etc) against minor harms, and so preferring SPECKS indicates a seeming incoherency of values.
Thanks for the patient explanation.