Re: Thinking the unthinkable: taboos and transhumanism

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 16:56:04 MDT

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    Peter C. McCluskey wrote:

    > sentience@pobox.com (Eliezer S. Yudkowsky) writes:
    >
    >>I believe that a hospital should not spend a million dollars to save the
    >>life of a five-year-old child, because if you take a million dollars away
    >
    >>from a hospital, people are going to die. I would applaud the moral
    >
    > I suspect you have a very inaccurate estimate of how productively
    > hospitals use their money. I'd guess it takes well over $10 million
    > of typical hospital spending to produce an expected savings of one life.

    Okay, duly noted.

    -- 
    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
    Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    


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