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Comment author: entirelyuseless 08 September 2015 05:27:14PM 0 points [-]

"Assume that avoiding these choices has a trivial cost, incommensurable with dying (ie no matter how many times you have to buckle your seatbelt, it still better than a fatal accident)."

Suppose you had a choice: die in a plane crash, or listen to those plane safety announcements one million times. I choose dying in a plane crash.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 September 2015 09:08:32AM 0 points [-]

The incommensurability assumption is for illustration only, and is dropped later on.

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