Hello Matthew and thanks for your points. I don’t think it counts as bias if favour of X if you chose to do X because you thought X was best!
On the first, I haven’t looked, but I wouldn’t consider that to be the right evidence. It seems pretty plausible people could below hedonic/satisfaction neutrality and not want to kill themselves; I’d expect our evolutionary insight is to keep living even in such circumstances—those who committed suicide easily would have their genes removed from the pool.
On the second, I haven’t, but I’d welcome someone doing that research.
On the third, I am familiar with that stuff and am in regular communication with the economists who write the big reports, e.g. the World Happiness Report. However, I tend to think that, given there are people working on the policy problem, and I don’t have much to add there, but there isn’t really anyone thinking about the EA-type questions of what the best things for individuals to do with their time and money, I do more by contributing to this latter issue.
Hello Matthew and thanks for your points. I don’t think it counts as bias if favour of X if you chose to do X because you thought X was best!
On the first, I haven’t looked, but I wouldn’t consider that to be the right evidence. It seems pretty plausible people could below hedonic/satisfaction neutrality and not want to kill themselves; I’d expect our evolutionary insight is to keep living even in such circumstances—those who committed suicide easily would have their genes removed from the pool.
On the second, I haven’t, but I’d welcome someone doing that research.
On the third, I am familiar with that stuff and am in regular communication with the economists who write the big reports, e.g. the World Happiness Report. However, I tend to think that, given there are people working on the policy problem, and I don’t have much to add there, but there isn’t really anyone thinking about the EA-type questions of what the best things for individuals to do with their time and money, I do more by contributing to this latter issue.