[SEQ RERUN] Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism

post by MinibearRex · 2011-11-10T04:29:47.914Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 2 comments

Today's post, Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism was originally published on 29 November 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

 

Without a metric for comparison, estimates of, e.g., what sorts of punitive damages should be awarded, or when some future advance will happen, vary widely simply due to the lack of a scale.

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This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we'll be going through Eliezer Yudkowsky's old posts in order so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping), and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.

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