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Well precisely, it doesn’t actually matter. I’ll let you into a secret: there isn’t even really a dice. The point is more to get people to think about the diff
by jameshart 6y ago
Well precisely, it doesn’t actually matter. I’ll let you into a secret: there isn’t even really a dice.
The point is more to get people to think about the difference between aggregate average mortality, vs the individual prognosis of one unlucky COVID patient.
This winds up being a trolley-problem kind of reframing of a moral argument. Philosophically, should you change your behavior between the following two scenarios:
- a group of 100 people all have a 1 in 100 chance of dying of a disease
- a group of 100 people contain one person who will definitely die if they get the disease
?
Does your answer change if you are the one person?