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Re:The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened? (pa... by adamisom on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:58PM (#33557452)
Not meaning to be inflammatory but the same scenario exists in flipped terms: how many people would you let die of cancer rather than, idk, eat the downside of running riskier experiments.

There’s no privileged neutral really. Consequentialism just owns that. Now, that might be a separate question from whether society should act as if there’s a privileged neutral (ie be nonconsequentialist).

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Re:The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened? (pa... by wombatpm on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:15PM (#33563540)
Isn’t the inverse more, there will never be a cure for cancer, so how many people can you justify killing to confirm that?

All I know is that when humanity faced the decision with respect to WWII medical experiments , the decision was made to not utilize the data, regardless of potential benefits.

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