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Lumifer comments on Ethics in a Feedback Loop: A Parable - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: PeerGynt 25 July 2014 04:25PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 July 2014 04:21:52PM -2 points [-]

leaves all women and most men physically sick and emotionally damaged

Reality check: fail.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 July 2014 08:04:17AM 5 points [-]

Dunno about emotionally damaged, but farmers were shorter than foragers in average until the 20th century, which is probably a decent proxy for physically sick.