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polymathwannabe comments on Irrationality Game III - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: CellBioGuy 12 March 2014 01:51PM

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 13 March 2014 03:40:10PM *  1 point [-]

Elsewhere I argued that the pain from the dust specks doesn't add up (and is therefore not really comparable to one single person's torture) unless the victims are forming a hive mind. What the thought experiment is actually comparing is one instance of horrible pain versus many, many individual and not groupable instances of minor discomfort.