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magfrump comments on Have you changed your mind lately? On what? - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: Emile 04 June 2012 07:54PM

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Comment author: magfrump 06 June 2012 04:28:08AM 1 point [-]

One possible idea: if I was the son of an African warlord, and I had the ability to make my parents' political decrees more compassionate if I talked to them after they blew off steam torturing people, but I could instead make them torture fewer people by talking to them beforehand.

Here my intuitions say I should let the individuals be tortured in exchange for effecting large scale policy decisions.