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Robin Hanson
Jun 1, 2013
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This is our monthly place to discuss topics that have not appeared in recent posts.

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Philip Goetz
May 15

If your life has negative utility, and you only defer suicide in the hopes of someday attaining positive utility, it makes sense to play the lottery. You can always kill yourself if you lose.

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Philip Goetz
May 15

Male-to-female ratio. The two great fiction franchises of the Millenials are Harry Potter and Twilight. Choose one.

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