Caledonian2 comments on Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Caledonian2 01 November 2007 02:53:00AM 3 points [-]

Cooking something for two hours at 350 degrees isn't equivalent to cooking something at 700 degrees for one hour.

I'd rather accept one additional dust speck per lifetime in 3^^^3 lives than have one lifetime out of 3^^^3 lives involve fifty years of torture.

Of course, that's me saying that, with my single life. If I actually had that many lives to live, I might become so bored that I'd opt for the torture merely for a change of pace.