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by Spooky23 2693 days ago
It’s a call to humanity, not emotion.

When you’re talking about selecting who dies with a 1% margin with some ML process with an unknown margin of error, I question your judgement.

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I don't see how it's a call to humanity. "Think if it was your kid vs two strangers" isn't calling on humanity. It's calling on familial tribalism and selfishness if anything.

And obviously, in the real world, a ML-given estimate with a 1% variance is probably entirely useless. In these sorts of hypotheticals,I'm not sure why that really matters. You can play with the numbers as you want, or even move the whole question out far enough into the future that the margin of error can be considered very low. The question remains the same.