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8 Post author: RolfAndreassen 06 June 2012 05:41PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 07 June 2012 10:44:10PM 1 point [-]

In the comic, the woman is arguing that the chip is a reason to not care about death as a way to disarm a threat. Modifying your preferences for game theoretic reasons can be a very sensible thing to do.

It can be. It wasn't this time. It resulted in her death.