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For some I guess. If your house were on fire, would you risk your life to stay and save the kids, or just jump out the window, go hide in the garage or chill at the neighbors? There's a moral dimension to the issue that can't be dodged.


If I were made of billions of independently movable conscious entities, I would send some of them to the garage and some of them to the neighbors while the mass stayed to save the kids.


Yeah but you are one person. Each of us has to make the decision. That's the root of all sorts of effects, like mob psychology or flash mobs or civilization.

So as a billionaire, do you spend your legacy on abandoning the kids and chilling at the neighbors, or staying and tending to the problems here?


As a billionaire? Hmm. It largely depends on where I end up on the zeppelin while extremely drunk.




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