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The notion of "Dead Child Currency" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6cRhG6PKeASdNHqxD/dead-child-currency https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6cRhG6PKeASdNHqxD/dea
by owenshen24 6y ago
The notion of "Dead Child Currency" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6cRhG6PKeASdNHqxD/dead-child-currency https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6cRhG6PKeASdNHqxD/dead-child...) may intrigue you.
- renewiltord 6y agoI enjoyed that. Interesting to me that I value arbitrarily children so low. Getting my turbocharged engine vs. getting the same car without a turbo could have saved a couple of lives. I suspect I would have made the same choice and killed two kids for a turbo if I had thought explicitly in those terms then.
- mtgx 6y agoKind of puts the trolley problem in a new perspective -- forget about saving five people or only one, it's more about whether or not you'd save five people or buy that long-range upgrade for your Tesla. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
- yboris 6y agoThe original "Dead Child Currency" (also linked from what you posted) https://www.gwern.net/docs/philo/2011-yvain-deadchild.html https://www.gwern.net/docs/philo/2011-yvain-deadchild.html I think it's a classic!