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I originally wrote this blog post on a night when I counselled my friends to stop counting the deaths that occured every second while they were unable to stop them. I prefaced my advice by telling them I understood that they wouldn't have wanted to hear any comfort that could...
This post is an addendum to A Different Prisoner's Dilemma. It is another scenario with which to demonstrate the point. Imagine that you are a person in a horrible and traumatic situation. The love of your life, the parent of your children, has been burned to death, deliberately. Capital punishment,...
I originally composed most of this post out of the things I said while counselling some dear friends of mine who were driving themselves into a panic spiral thinking about the approximately 1.7 people who were dying every second, and feeling responsible even though there was nothing they could do,...
A personal, experiential response to: Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points, by Eleizer Yudkowsky. I wrote the following article in order to help me express and process and eventually publish my thoughts, while setting myself to accept the challenge posed in Eleizer's post, which I had just reached in the...