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RichardHughes comments on [Poll] Less Wrong and Mainstream Philosophy: How Different are We? - Less Wrong Discussion

38 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 26 September 2012 12:25PM

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Comment author: RichardHughes 27 September 2012 09:52:28PM 3 points [-]

Presuming I value the lives of all the people involved equally, I turn on to the side track. If I have a strong reason not to let the person on the side track die - they're a relative, I know them well, they owe me money, I'm in love with them, whatever - I let it go straight.

This is a really easy problem if you accept that you're only a marginally good person at best.