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Jiro comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jiro 11 August 2015 04:06:05PM *  7 points [-]

Most people do not consider "perform a single step which has an X chance of death" and "perform two steps, one of which is an X chance, and another of which kills with certainty the person chosen in the first step" to be equivalent.