Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Against Discount Rates - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 January 2008 10:00AM

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 06 March 2015 10:58:01PM 0 points [-]

If you wouldn't burn alive 1,226,786,652 people today to save Giordano Bruno from the stake in 1600

Your choice of an example makes the bullet unduly easy for me to swallow. I had to pretend you had said "to save a random peasant from pneumonia in 1600" instead for my System 1 to get your point.