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177 – Decision Trees and Butlerian Jihads with Matt Freeman

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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Is It a Quantum 51% Probability, Not Deterministic?

I think that just comes back to ethics where don't make decisions for other people kind of thing. You can decide for yourself. I accept everything else under the trolley dilemma and everything. But when you're deciding to murder someone else to save 100,000 people or whatever it is or 10,000 people, you're like... You know what? Maybe let the person who's going to be murdered decide if they want to make that sacrifice and don't decide for them. And also you're creating all these other universes of terrible loss and devastation but 2% less on that. So you're gaining.

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