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gwern comments on Anthropic signature: strange anti-correlations - Less Wrong Discussion

51 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 October 2014 04:59PM

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Comment author: gwern 21 October 2014 07:13:59PM 1 point [-]

Sure. You can supply food and water and other forms of palliative care (if you don't have food and water, Ebola might kill you but thirst & starvation definitely will kill you), and resources can be used to enforce quarantines like posting watchmen to sealed-up houses or soldiers to bottlenecks.