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[Link] Death with Dignity by Scott Adams — LessWrong

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[Link] Death with Dignity by Scott Adams

by Gunnar_Zarncke

12th May 2015

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Over at Scott Adams' Blog you can find a very fine example of using the 'Rationality Engine' to solve the social problem of assisted dying.

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Drugs for euthanasia are sugar pills with 100% occurrence of lethal side effects.

A side effect is something other than the intended effect. If you used it as a placebo, then it would have a 100% occurrence of lethal side effects, but as it is it has none.