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SUMMARY:The good news about killing people - Bryan W. Roberts (LSE)
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:Modern economics has designed a body of theory for how to make
  decisions involving irreversible outcomes. Motivated by this theory\, we 
 propose a 'Good News Principle' for the decision to kill one's self or oth
 ers\, which states that such a decision depends on the quantity and probab
 ility of future good news (supporting not killing)\, but not of future bad
  news (supporting killing). We then derive this principle as a theorem of 
 a simple consequentialist model for irreversible acts.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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