We see this in the US with covid: The same people who didn’t realize that we all should be wearing masks, when they were life-saving, are now slow to realize/admit that we can stop wearing them.
At $10M/life, I can* agree that a mask isn’t worth it. But if we eg. 1000x the value of life, wearing a mask provides something like $5 of value instead of $0.005, and at that price it would be worth it. So the question becomes whether we should value life wildly highly like this.
The point I was trying to make in my comment was, “perhaps we should value life wildly highly like this”. The following is mentioned in the OP as a way to do “precognition”: “2. Listen to other independent thinkers.” As I explain in this post, I get the impression that if you go by the judgements of these expert, independent thinkers, it might be justifiable to value life wildly highly.
*Not wearing a mask feels like defecting in a prisoners dilemma to me, which makes me feel icky.
In the OP, jasoncrawford says:
At $10M/life, I can* agree that a mask isn’t worth it. But if we eg. 1000x the value of life, wearing a mask provides something like $5 of value instead of $0.005, and at that price it would be worth it. So the question becomes whether we should value life wildly highly like this.
The point I was trying to make in my comment was, “perhaps we should value life wildly highly like this”. The following is mentioned in the OP as a way to do “precognition”: “2. Listen to other independent thinkers.” As I explain in this post, I get the impression that if you go by the judgements of these expert, independent thinkers, it might be justifiable to value life wildly highly.
*Not wearing a mask feels like defecting in a prisoners dilemma to me, which makes me feel icky.