RobinHanson comments on Hiroshima Day - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 August 2008 11:15PM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 07 August 2008 09:58:41PM 0 points [-]

Scott, I'll take your bait. Yes of course I should consider my probability calculation carefully and skeptically, but if even so I estimated killing one innocent person would reduce extinction by one part in a hundred thousand, and if those were the only consequences worth considering, then yes I would support that.