Jiro comments on Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 October 2007 02:50AM

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Comment author: Jiro 24 October 2014 02:38:19PM 3 points [-]

You don't even have to go that far. Replace "dust specks" with "the inconvenience of not going outside the house" and "tiny chance of torture" with "tiny chance that being outside the house will lead to you getting killed".

Comment author: timujin 26 October 2014 10:12:46AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I understood the point.