Paul_Gowder comments on Circular Altruism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Paul_Gowder 26 January 2008 02:14:00AM 4 points [-]

Tcpkac: wonderful intuition pump.

Gary: interesting -- my sense of the nipple piercing case is that yes, there's a number of unwilling nipple piercings that does add up to 50 years of torture. It might be a number larger than the earth can support, but it exists. I wonder why my intuition is different there. Is yours?