polymathwannabe comments on Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 13 February 2014 06:29:27PM -2 points [-]

Unless the 3^^^3 people are forming a hive mind, I pick the specks.

I'm terribly inexperienced in translating ethical preferences into money, but in that scenario I wouldn't pay the penny. A penny can be better used in buying more utility than removing specks from 3^^^3 eyeballs.