You again ignored the part where 60% of the workforce get sick at practically the same time, leading to a collapse of medical care, leading to deaths unrelated to Corona.
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Replying to @RayTski @HenryTarquin and
Since you consciously keep forgetting that part I must assume you are arguing in bad faith, so I'll mute you now.
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I can't address everything at once. One thing worth pointing out: it's not as though 60% of the workforce will be INCAPACITATED at once.
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Half of all people (maybe; no one really knows) can get the disease without even noticing; and these are mostly younger people.
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So even if we all got the disease on the same Tuesday, it's HIGHLY doubtful 60% of the workforce would be incapacitated.
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However, even on the assumption that they were, this tsunami effect could well still be better for the economy than slow starvation.
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And in any case, my point about diminishing marginal disutility applies just as much to people falling sick, as to people dying.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
Your point about "diminishing marginal disutility" is completely wrong 10,000 deaths is MORE THAN twice as bad as 5,000 deaths, the negative impact MULTIPLIES How is this not fucking obvious
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
look this principle is trivial to derive if the badness of a death is equal to how bad it makes me feel, and we know that human feels increase on a logarithmic scale, then it's just obvious that increasing deaths have decreasing marginal badness, QED
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Lol it's like he thinks "a million is a statistic" is literally true "I feel a lot worse when I read about one person dying who has a name and a face than when I read a statistic about a million dying I will extrapolate this to the entire world"
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"After all, both the named one person and the unnamed million people are fictional characters who had no real jobs nor real friends and family"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
indeed, by this metric, the rise of skywalker was significantly worse, world-historically speaking, than the million unreported malaria deaths last year that's just logic
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