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ChristianKl comments on Rationality test: Vote for trump - Less Wrong Discussion

-18 Post author: pwno 16 June 2016 08:33AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 17 June 2016 01:19:32PM 1 point [-]

What kind of hourly wage do you have that you think you should vote for 10 cents?

Comment author: gjm 17 June 2016 02:43:33PM -2 points [-]

with no logistical inconveniences

Comment author: Liron 22 June 2016 12:23:28PM 0 points [-]

Booya

Comment author: Val 23 June 2016 06:59:44PM 0 points [-]

There are some people who think punishment and reward work linearly.

If I remember correctly (please correct me if I'm wrong) even Eliezer himself believes that if we assign a pain value in the single digits to very slightly pinching someone so they barely feel anything, and a pain value in the millions to torturing someone with the worst possible torture, then you should choose torturing a thousand people over slightly pinching half of the planet's inhabitants, if your goal was to minimize suffering. With such a logic, you could assign rewards and punishments to anything, and calculate pretty strange things out of that.