From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Dec 28 1996 - 16:58:49 MST
I think that asking whether there were really gas chambers in the
Holocaust is a question which:
1) Is of no conceivable positive value;
2) Is of very great negative value.
With a bit of statistical work, you could probably calculate the number
of women raped to produce a single child.
I hope that nobody is ever dumb enough to publish such a statistic,
because rapists would immediately try to rape multiples of that many
women.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
everything I think I know.
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