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gwern comments on Open Thread March 7 - March 13, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 13 March 2016 12:38:41AM 3 points [-]

I'm all for cost-benefit analysis. I'm just appalled by the sheer cruelty of writing into law a ban on specific treatments. Perhaps my reaction is due to having spent a life wearing hearing aids, and so I have a rather strong reaction to condemning indefinite millions to the same fate.