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In a much-loved creation myth, Eve tempts Adam with the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. I wonder whether the tree of life mentioned elsewhere in the bible is the same tree? Either way, it is pleasing to apply the same term to the mundane notion of a game tree when talking about evaluating lives not just the life of an individual, but of a society, or our species.
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Binmore, K. (2020). Valuing Lives. In: Crooked Thinking or Straight Talk?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39547-6_3
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