"You've got a hundred thousand psions. There is a nontrivial chance that somebody has developed the skill and it beats committing suicide beforehand just to be sure. I realize the next place I wake up may be even less pleasant than this or that I might not wake up at all, but I'd take that over, say, a 40% chance of a 40% chance of being turned into a sub."
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"You've got - what was the number, a hundred thousand psions? Small as a fraction of the population but it sounds quite large in absolute terms to me. There is a nontrivial chance that somebody has developed the skill and it beats committing suicide beforehand just to be sure. I realize the next place I wake up may be even less pleasant than this or that I might not wake up at all, but I'd take that over, say, a 40% chance of a 40% chance of being turned into a sub." |
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"You've got - what was the number, a hundred thousand psions? Small as a fraction of the population but it sounds quite large in absolute terms to me. There is a nontrivial chance that somebody has developed the skill and it beats committing suicide beforehand just to be sure. I realize the next place I wake up may be even less pleasant than this or that I might not wake up at all, but I'd take that over, say, a 40% chance of a 40% chance of being turned into a sub. Unless it looks like my existence is too important to your world to end it which... is a really upsetting thought I'd rather not think about right now though I acknowledge it is probable before tabling it." ('Tabling? Why is the word for that tabling?' Thellim distracts herself.) |
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"You've got - what was the number, a hundred thousand psions? Small as a fraction of the population but it sounds quite large in absolute terms to me. There is a nontrivial chance that somebody has developed the skill and it beats committing suicide beforehand just to be sure. I realize the next place I wake up may be even less pleasant than this or that I might not wake up at all, but I'd take that over, say, a 40% chance of a 40% chance of being turned into a sub. Unless it looks like my existence is too important to your world to ethically die which... is a really upsetting thought I'd rather not think about right now though I acknowledge it is probable before tabling it." ('Tabling? Why is the word for that tabling?' Thellim distracts herself.) |
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"You've got - what was the number, a hundred thousand psions? Small as a fraction of the population but it sounds quite large in absolute terms to me. There is a nontrivial chance that somebody has developed the skill and it beats committing suicide beforehand just to be sure. I realize the next place I wake up may be even less pleasant than this or that I might not wake up at all, but I'd take that over, say, a 40% chance of a 40% chance of being turned into a sub. Unless it looks like my existence is too important to your world to ethically die which... is a really upsetting thought I'd rather not think about right now though I acknowledge it is probable before tabling it." ('Tabling, why is the word for that tabling?' Thellim distracts herself.) |