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You jest, but given that the average lifespan is about 622k hours, I think you can have a serious moral argument about whether it's better to kill one person or
by zeroer 9y ago
You jest, but given that the average lifespan is about 622k hours, I think you can have a serious moral argument about whether it's better to kill one person or make a million people late by an hour.
- Neliquat 9y agoOoo, this will be a good one for the ethics panel. How many of those million people could have saved, or ended a life in that time? Its a juicy one.
- zeroer 9y agoI think the argument rests on the fact that on net, people generally do positive things with their time. If the break-even point isn't 1 million people, where is it? 622k? 100 billion? 3^^^3? This is Eliezer Yudkowski's dust speck argument all over again. http://lesswrong.com/lw/kn/torture_vs_dust_specks/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/kn/torture_vs_dust_specks/