You jest, but given that the average lifespan is about 622k hours, I think you c...

Neliquat · on April 25, 2017

Ooo, this will be a good one for the ethics panel. How many of those million people could have saved, or ended a life in that time? Its a juicy one.

zeroer · on April 25, 2017

I think the argument rests on the fact that on net, people generally do positive things with their time.

If the break-even point isn't 1 million people, where is it? 622k? 100 billion? 3^^^3?

This is Eliezer Yudkowski's dust speck argument all over again. http://lesswrong.com/lw/kn/torture_vs_dust_specks/