drethelin comments on Open Thread, Jun. 22 - Jun. 28, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: adamzerner 23 June 2015 03:38:19AM 2 points [-]

Are you just making these points as things to keep in mind, or are you making a stronger point? If the latter, can you elaborate? Are you particularly knowledgeable?

Comment author: drethelin 23 June 2015 03:56:56AM 16 points [-]

The point is your consideration of "if surgery, definitely fine" vs "if no surgery, 5/1000 chance of death" are ignoring a lot of information. You're acting like your doctor is being unreasonable when in fact they're probably correct.