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seer comments on Discussion of Slate Star Codex: "Extremism in Thought Experiments is No Vice" - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: Artaxerxes 28 March 2015 09:17AM

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 30 March 2015 02:03:34PM 0 points [-]

A rule whereby you do not kill people without their consent is much easier to implement, and results in many fewer bad consequences (including perverse incentives), than a rule whereby you do not refuse to give people a million dollars without their consent.

Comment author: seer 31 March 2015 05:00:34AM 6 points [-]

I'm not talking about a general rule against killing, I'm talking killing this particular guy named Joe, who's really annoying me.