TruthOrWar comments on Epilogue: Atonement (8/8) - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 February 2009 11:52AM

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Comment author: ad2 06 February 2009 06:02:56PM 1 point [-]

It's somehow depressing that in this story, a former rapist dirtbag saves the world.

Why is that depressing?

And if the good and decent officer who pressed that button had needed to walk up to a man, a woman, a child, and slit their throats one at a time, he would have broken long before he killed seventy thousand people.

I have my doubts about that. If he could do it seven times, he could do it seventy thousand times. Since when was it harder for a killer to kill again?

Comment author: TruthOrWar 26 September 2010 06:01:43AM 4 points [-]

When the man would think that 7 deaths is worth it but perhaps 70 000 is too many