Re: creedal minimalism vs Skeptic magazine

Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:58:49 -0600

I think that asking whether there were really gas chambers in the
Holocaust is a question which:

1) Is of no conceivable positive value;
2) Is of very great negative value.

With a bit of statistical work, you could probably calculate the number
of women raped to produce a single child.

I hope that nobody is ever dumb enough to publish such a statistic,
because rapists would immediately try to rape multiples of that many
women.

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