VAuroch comments on Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VAuroch 23 January 2015 01:42:04PM 0 points [-]

The ripple effect is real, but as in Pascal's Wager, for every possible situation where the timing is critical and something bad will happen if you are distracted for a moment, there's a counterbalancing situation where the timing is critical and something bad will happen unless you are distracted for a moment, so those probably balance out into noise.