I’m interested in how you make your donation (or prioritization) decisions between causes? I think I might have more grounding for the debate understanding that, but continuing on with this thread...
I think that this maybe doesn’t take into account some of the arguments we have in the moral diversity section (and also the idea above of moral seriousness). The sort of reasoning you outline is this more totalizing utilitarian consideration where all of your donating is lead by some key factors (i.e. moral weights, the expected size of the future, etc.).
We’re getting at something different in the section you’re pulling from (namely that indirect effects are really important and should be considered) but in this other one we’re saying “Maybe consider splitting your allocation across different groups rather than just letting one utility function dominate it all”. GHD is something like a “helping humans now” bucket for me that I never want to fully ignore because I think that’s important.
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I’m interested in how you make your donation (or prioritization) decisions between causes? I think I might have more grounding for the debate understanding that, but continuing on with this thread...
I think that this maybe doesn’t take into account some of the arguments we have in the moral diversity section (and also the idea above of moral seriousness). The sort of reasoning you outline is this more totalizing utilitarian consideration where all of your donating is lead by some key factors (i.e. moral weights, the expected size of the future, etc.).
We’re getting at something different in the section you’re pulling from (namely that indirect effects are really important and should be considered) but in this other one we’re saying “Maybe consider splitting your allocation across different groups rather than just letting one utility function dominate it all”. GHD is something like a “helping humans now” bucket for me that I never want to fully ignore because I think that’s important.