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JGWeissman comments on Torturing people for fun - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: cousin_it 14 February 2011 08:52PM

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Comment author: JGWeissman 14 February 2011 10:53:08PM 4 points [-]

Reversal test:

One person is about to be tortured for a month, and N people are about to have X fun each, but you can prevent it all by pushing a button. For what values of X and N do you push the button?

Comment author: cousin_it 14 February 2011 10:56:12PM *  1 point [-]

Good idea. It doesn't change my own answer, though. YMMV.