Also, if we defer to people’s revealed preferences, we should dramatically discount the lives and welfare of foreigners. I’d guess that Open Philanthropy, being American-funded, would need to reallocate much or most of its global health and development grantmaking to American-focused work, or to global catastrophic risks.
Also, if we defer to people’s revealed preferences, we should dramatically discount the lives and welfare of foreigners. I’d guess that Open Philanthropy, being American-funded, would need to reallocate much or most of its global health and development grantmaking to American-focused work, or to global catastrophic risks.
EDIT: For those interested, there’s some literature on valuing foreign lives, e.g. https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=“valuing+foreign+lives”+OR+”foreign+life+valuation”