J Thomas, if you can’t see a better option, you tell them to rape your wife. Duh.
(No, I’m not a sociopath, I’ve just trained myself not to whine about my options, just pick the obviously best of a bad lot quickly, and keep looking for an escape route. The scenario is legitimate, people in real life have faced worse.)
Nick Tarleton, the problem with explaining waking up with a blue tentacle is that it’s so low-probability as to destroy the worldview you would use to explain it; by Bayes, you shouldn’t be able to explain it post facto unless you anticipate it to some measurable degree ante-facto. But a blue tentacle doesn’t destroy your utility function, so asking “What would you do if you woke up with a blue tentacle?” is a perfectly legitimate dilemma.
J Thomas, if you can’t see a better option, you tell them to rape your wife. Duh.
(No, I’m not a sociopath, I’ve just trained myself not to whine about my options, just pick the obviously best of a bad lot quickly, and keep looking for an escape route. The scenario is legitimate, people in real life have faced worse.)
Nick Tarleton, the problem with explaining waking up with a blue tentacle is that it’s so low-probability as to destroy the worldview you would use to explain it; by Bayes, you shouldn’t be able to explain it post facto unless you anticipate it to some measurable degree ante-facto. But a blue tentacle doesn’t destroy your utility function, so asking “What would you do if you woke up with a blue tentacle?” is a perfectly legitimate dilemma.