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