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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. First Ray of Spring‏ @RayTski 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @RayTski @HenryTarquin and

      Because no matter how hard it is to adapt to the lockdown, adapting to mass illness and death is bound to be harder.

      1 reply 1 retweet 15 likes
    2. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @RayTski @mcjulie and

      Lockdown or something like it may well be the best minimisation strategy—depending on where you are. Indeed I'm inclined to think it is here

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and

      But it's far from obvious, and I'm suspicious of this kind of armchair reasoning.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and

      A temporary wave of mass death (especially if they're largely people who would soon have died anyway) could well be easier to recover from.

      4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and

      And as I've pointed out: just as both forks in our path lead to economic ruin, both lead to mass illness and death.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and

      And there is diminishing marginal disutility—in terms of economic impact—on these deaths. That is to say...

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      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.

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. (((Barak)))‏ @lawnerdbarak 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and

      Right, it’s MORE disruptive. That’s literally how diminishing marginal utility works. Each inch improved matters less, each inch backslid matters more. If ten thousand people die unexpectedly, moreover, there are discontinuities. Like “we run out of morgue space”

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    9. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @lawnerdbarak @RayTski and

      Henry Fitzgerald Retweeted Henry Fitzgerald

      I've addressed both those points elsewhere. On the first:https://twitter.com/HenryTarquin/status/1256010077250523138 …

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      Henry Fitzgerald @HenryTarquin
      Replying to @arthur_affect @RayTski and 3 others
      There IS such a thing as diminishing marginal disutility. The first lash of the whip contributes more pain than the tenth, etc.
      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    10. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @lawnerdbarak and

      On the second: yes, there are discontinuities. But the same applies in both directions...

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Apr 2020
      Replying to @HenryTarquin @lawnerdbarak and

      I don't care about this particular argument as a whole Henry I only brought it up because the idea that the country as a whole experiences "diminishing marginal disutility of deaths" is so staggeringly stupid and evil it needs to be called out

      5:59 PM - 30 Apr 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and

          Over what interval does that obtain, Henry If killing the first 5,000 people was worse than killing the next 10,000 then by the time a million people have died no one will care at all right Might as well just kill everyone by that point

          1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 30 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and

          Yeah, if your goal is minimizing unhappiness, you can really make it all go away if the Universe spontaneously collapses to a lower vacuum state or something.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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