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Re:How do cash transfers impact the people who don’t receive... by JoshTriplett on Monday August 22, 2022 @06:34AM (#32549599)
Any value system in which "save one person" is not obviously and objectively better than "save zero people", with no other tradeoffs or details present, seems objectively incorrect.
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Re:How do cash transfers impact the people who don’t receive... by notahacker on Monday August 22, 2022 @07:20AM (#32549912)
tbf real world tradeoffs are usually more like "save one person with high degree of likelihood of success" vs "attempt to save two people with significant likelihood of failure"
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Re:How do cash transfers impact the people who don’t receive... by imtringued on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:54AM (#32561351)
If there are 10^58 people in the second situation we call them longtermists.
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