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Lockdown: A Trolley Problem

Brain in a Vat

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The Trilate Problem Is This Utilitarian View

The idea is, I mean, in kind of the most rosy paint, the rosiest picture of the lockdown is that there are no people on the other track. And so by locking down, what we're doing is we're making the utilitarian choice. But let's complicate things a little bit. We have some information that's been rolling in about two million cases around the world at the moment. So how many people have tested positive for the results? And we know how many people who tested positive for COVID have died.

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