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Comment author: drethelin 13 July 2013 01:15:28PM 2 points [-]

insofar as we can preserve tigers as a species in zoos or with genetic materials I'd say the people are more valuable, but if killing these tigers wiped out the species, they're worth more.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 13 July 2013 10:11:14PM 1 point [-]

What about 1,500 people, instead of 150? 15,000? 150,000?

Comment author: drethelin 14 July 2013 03:08:42AM 0 points [-]

I haven't done the math. 1,500 people feels like a line, 15,000 people feels like enough.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 16 July 2013 05:08:41AM 2 points [-]

Wow, those are some hugely divergent preferences from mine. I'm pretty sure I would trade the lives of all the remaining tigers in India to keep my family alive. I'll have to update what I expect human-CEV to look like (given that are preferences are likely much closer than that of a randomly selected person [since we had to pass through many filters to end up on this web forum]).

Comment author: drethelin 16 July 2013 05:12:08AM 3 points [-]

Id trade a lot more random humans for my family than I would for tigers.

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