What does it mean to optimize the world, assuming the Many Worlds theory is true?
It's caused by guns. If you're considering gun control, most gun-related deaths are suicide, and you consider suicide to be just as bad as any other form of death, then the most important consideration is suicide.
Robbing people of effective means to die doesn't make suicidal people stop being suicidal. It just forces them to endure whatever unbearable and possibly untreatable pain they are in.
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Open thread, Oct. 13 - Oct. 19, 2014
have you noticed people adopting the lesswrong terminology and inaccurately priding themselves on being "sane"?
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Do you or would you secretly invade your child's privacy for their own protection?