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> What if there's a 99% chance they're an android? Still seems like you should avoid the torture-murder, for the 1% chance they're human. 99.9999999% chance? At
by ajuc 3y ago
> What if there's a 99% chance they're an android? Still seems like you should avoid the torture-murder, for the 1% chance they're human. 99.9999999% chance? At this point I think it becomes less pressing, but it's still a little bad to hurt them.
This is a nice lie we tell ourselves, but it's obvious if you look into what we actually do, that we value small things like convenience and money over a small chance of killing someone. See cars for the easiest example, but there's many more.
Conveniently your chances of dying in a car accident are around 1% each year: https://www.rosenfeldinjurylawyers.com/news/what-are-your-chances-of-dying-in-a-car-crash/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20National%20Safety,103%20for%20any%20given%20year https://www.rosenfeldinjurylawyers.com/news/what-are-your-ch....
- carrolldunham 3y ago>your chances of dying in a car accident are around 1% each year That's very obviously wrong since that would mean the road toll for my city of 400k would be 4000/year and it's actually 12/year
- f5ve 3y ago> 1% each year I think you mean 1% each life
- ajuc 3y ago> According to the National Safety Council (NSC), your chances of dying in a car crash are about one in 103 for any given year. It does seem impossibly high now that I did math.
- carrolldunham 3y agoLook at the crapsite you copied this text from - it's spam garbage. Please be more discerning when you see 'facts' given online.
- JackMorgan 3y agoDivide the number of fatalities (36,096) by the population (331,000,000) and multiply by 100: (36,096 / 331,000,000) * 100 ≈ 0.0109% It's easy to mixed up with the percentage conversion. Still it's really high all things considered.