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Torture vs. Dust Specks - LessWrong

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"What's the worst that can happen?" goes the optimistic saying. It's probably a bad question to ask anyone with a creative imagination. Let's consi…

x Torture vs. Dust Specks — LessWrong Consequentialism Shut Up and Multiply Ethics & Morality Suffering Scope Insensitivity Complexity of value Frontpage 89 Torture vs. Dust Specks by Eliezer Yudkowsky 30th Oct 2007 1 min read 634 89 "What's the worst that can happen?" goes the optimistic saying. It's probably a bad question to ask anyone with a creative imagination. Let's consider the problem on an individual level: it's not really the worst that can happen, but would nonetheless be fairly bad, if you were horribly tortured for a number of years. This is one of the worse things that can reali

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