And as I've pointed out: just as both forks in our path lead to economic ruin, both lead to mass illness and death.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
And there is diminishing marginal disutility—in terms of economic impact—on these deaths. That is to say...
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
The economic impact of 10,000 deaths will not be anything like twice as bad as the economic impact of 5,000.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
Did you just learn about the term "diminishing marginal utility" and think it's some kind of universal law of economics that applies to everything man Fucking A There can be both diminishing AND INCREASING marginal utilities (or disutilities)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Just like there are both economies and diseconomies of scale You don't know which one it is until you actually look at the situation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
You didn't even think this through, disutility means going in the opposite direction of utility For something that has a generally diminishing marginal utility, taking it AWAY has generally INCREASING marginal DISutility
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
I.e. if going from having $0 to $50k changes your life more than going from $50k to $100k, then once you do have $100k, taking away the first $50k hurts you less than taking away the second $50k Because it's the same thing, it's the same graph going in the opposite direction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Fucking Twitter autodidacts Jesus Christ
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RayTski and
There IS such a thing as diminishing marginal disutility. The first lash of the whip contributes more pain than the tenth, etc.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
Yes and do you think that implies to killing off large numbers of people in the US population you fucking dumb stupid shitty stain
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My God you really seriously think that the dead people don't "count", huh That someone dying only has *emotional* impact and once the real working people become numb to it the impact will fade
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
It's almost like killing off a big chunk of the population that *works in jobs* will result in, at best, a period of massive chaos as industries collapse because they don't have anyone to work in them and they can't appeal to the still-living people because *everyone died there*.
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Replying to @Zendervai @HenryTarquin and
And this is an actual concrete point about this specific crisis that people who blather on about the abstraction of "marginal disutility" don't get The current "threat profile" we think we have depends on things staying stable and not accelerating
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