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Stuart_Armstrong comments on "All natural food" as an constrained optimisation problem - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 28 July 2014 06:46:29PM 1 point [-]

It is not obvious that the expected negative utility of e.g. GM-food due to unexpected bad effects on health is higher than the expected positivity utility from e.g. lower cost.

Agreed. But I was surprised that "all natural" would have any health benefits at all.

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