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by numpad0 2007 days ago
The “fallacy” is the notion patently obvious to some; that people care about lives that are probabilistically lost that can be saved by artificial interventions.

People don’t care! They rather die in the hands of gods. Unbelievable but probably that’s the case.

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yes, humans are traditionally bad at estimating opportunity costs of actions (or lack of actions)