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FormallyknownasRoko comments on $100 for the best article on efficient charity -- deadline Wednesday 1st December - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: FormallyknownasRoko 24 November 2010 10:31PM

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Comment author: FormallyknownasRoko 27 November 2010 11:43:58PM *  14 points [-]

If you consider the lives of other people to be as valuable as your own life

This seems like massively too strong an assumption to make. Practically no-one actually values the lives of random strangers equally to their own. And you don't need to assume it anyway.