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Feels like you are drawing a distinction between harms, and recursive harms. Harmful things can be analyzed; the risks can be quantified and weighed up against
by jl6 5y ago
Feels like you are drawing a distinction between harms, and recursive harms.
Harmful things can be analyzed; the risks can be quantified and weighed up against the benefits; the downside can be limited.
Recursively harmful things - which not only cause harm but precipitate further rounds of harm - are harder to analyze and have potentially infinite downside.
- ethbr0 5y agoThat's a good, simpler way of putting it: summing over all harms, including future ones. For single act harms, future terms don't exist. And for recursive, add in a probability weighting, if one wants to be pedantic about modeling.