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DanielLC comments on Open thread, February 15-28, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanielLC 16 February 2013 08:13:14PM 6 points [-]

I'm pretty sure that, in this case, the probability is smaller than the disutility is large. Getting tested for cancer doesn't come cheap.