If you press the button, you gain a superpower that allows you to magically detect the amount of lives that any given baby under 18 months old will one day end up taking.
This prediction is *not* adjusted for your potential choice to kill the baby.
Do you press the button?
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How are you defining taking lives? The net lives causally on someone's ledger at the end of their lives? That seems like a hard thing to determine.
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Too many moral imperatives. A lot of responsibility comes with that role, so no.
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How would you know if the kid isn't going to end up being a war hero for good?
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I'd be hesitant to act upon such information unless I also had information about the net effect of my interventions.
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I want a better super power. This seems relatively hard to gauge--what sort of lives of what types of creatures; taking it to mean humans it could be killing in a good cause, well-intentioned but wrong; so can't automatically assume they are awful, so this is useless unless you
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