Youtube is the large-scale, small-effect answer, while Sublimity is the small-scale, large-effect answer. Similarly, specks is the large-scale, small-effect answer, while torture is the small-scale, large-effect answer. Thus, I don’t find the meaning of your comment to be obvious—to estimate it, I would be forced to reconstruct a large-enough chain of reasoning that I would likely misunderstand something. Could you explain?
Because one is good but the other is bad! So the 3^^^3 of a small bad thing is much worse than the one-person big bad thing, and 3^^^3 of a small good thing is much better than the one-person big good thing.
I think Bongo read “pick torture” as choose torture over the dust specks, i. e. prioritize avoiding the dust specks over avoiding the torture. Which is actually the most straightforward reading of just those two words if you ignore the rest of thakil’s post.
What do you mean “but”? Youtube is what you would expect a torture-chooser to choose.
Youtube is the large-scale, small-effect answer, while Sublimity is the small-scale, large-effect answer. Similarly, specks is the large-scale, small-effect answer, while torture is the small-scale, large-effect answer. Thus, I don’t find the meaning of your comment to be obvious—to estimate it, I would be forced to reconstruct a large-enough chain of reasoning that I would likely misunderstand something. Could you explain?
Edit: Request retracted—I understand it now.
Because one is good but the other is bad! So the 3^^^3 of a small bad thing is much worse than the one-person big bad thing, and 3^^^3 of a small good thing is much better than the one-person big good thing.
I think Bongo read “pick torture” as choose torture over the dust specks, i. e. prioritize avoiding the dust specks over avoiding the torture. Which is actually the most straightforward reading of just those two words if you ignore the rest of thakil’s post.
Yep.
Mmkay, that makes sense.