Benquo comments on A Case Study of Motivated Continuation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benquo 31 October 2007 04:33:39AM 0 points [-]

Crocker's rules -- feel free to use me as an example if you think I gave a non-answer.

(I argued that the aggregation of a sufficient number of specks inflicted on a single person is equivalent to some significant length torture anyway.)

But there's a difference between refusing to choose in a situation that by its nature is necessarily hypothetical and trying not to choose in a real situation.