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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by sgc on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:02AM (#21158372)
> A mere inconvenience, suffered by enough people, is worth killing a few.

Wow. I can't agree with that one even a little bit. The real concern is totalitarian abuse. But being inconvenienced allows us to kill? That rings as downright pathological.

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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by loup-vaillant on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:17PM (#21161512)
That's because it only works on pathological cases. Like the dust speck vs torture dilemma. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3wYTFWY3LKQCnAptN/torture-vs...

In practice, the tradeoffs are never that extreme.

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