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NihilCredo comments on On Lottery Tickets - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: SeventhNadir 29 November 2010 08:21AM

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Comment author: NihilCredo 29 November 2010 05:04:10PM *  0 points [-]

Sure, but they're extremely rare exceptions - the overwhelming majority of lottery players are not indebted to murderers (and a significant chunk of those who do, I suppose, still have much better options available e.g. run to the police accepting whatever prison sentence may await them).

EDIT: Rephrased the question in the preceding comment to make it clearer that I was thinking of ordinary lottery players.

Comment author: prase 30 November 2010 01:59:47PM 0 points [-]

Now I agree.