Meaning of white pill | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A philosophical dilemma in which someone who faces death or disability at a certain probability is offered a perfect antidote if they pay a specified amount of money.
   attributive, often
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, pill.

Examples

“Now that we have both the black pill and white pill results before us, we are in a position to make a few general observations.”

“We can also think of selling risks of being disabled. Suppose that a person facing a risk p of being disabled to level f could avoid that risk for a payment x. How much should he pay? We call this the disability white pill question and diagram it as shown in Figure 6.”

“Howard [1984] bases his analysis on a "black pill” and a "white pill."”

“While most people find the formulation of the white pill problem to be perfectly acceptable, many find the black pill problem to be very objectionable.”

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