While I donāt have anything to add to other commentators on the cost-effectiveness estimate, I like this post for several reasons:
In addition to the practical impact, thinking about bone marrow donation can be really good practice for figuring out the return on someoneās time and energy (I could picture this being a trial task for an EA research org)
It seems to me as though EA will best thrive if members try to be especially moral even beyond their careers and donations.
This doesnāt mean trying to achieve moral sainthood or enlightenment, but it does seemā¦ coherent, I suppose, for people in EA to be the sorts of people who will clean up litter when they see it, help someone up whoās fallen, be polite to store employees, and at least consider giving blood or bone marrow (assuming that the calculations work out).
A community full of people who are in the habit of ādoing the right thingā in small ways seems like it has a better chance of lasting for a long time, to the general satisfaction of its members. (Getting good at noticing when something is wrong and needs correction also has highly EA-relevant implications, e.g. around community health and taking action when someoneās behavior is causing a lot of disvalue.)
While I donāt have anything to add to other commentators on the cost-effectiveness estimate, I like this post for several reasons:
In addition to the practical impact, thinking about bone marrow donation can be really good practice for figuring out the return on someoneās time and energy (I could picture this being a trial task for an EA research org)
It seems to me as though EA will best thrive if members try to be especially moral even beyond their careers and donations.
This doesnāt mean trying to achieve moral sainthood or enlightenment, but it does seemā¦ coherent, I suppose, for people in EA to be the sorts of people who will clean up litter when they see it, help someone up whoās fallen, be polite to store employees, and at least consider giving blood or bone marrow (assuming that the calculations work out).
A community full of people who are in the habit of ādoing the right thingā in small ways seems like it has a better chance of lasting for a long time, to the general satisfaction of its members. (Getting good at noticing when something is wrong and needs correction also has highly EA-relevant implications, e.g. around community health and taking action when someoneās behavior is causing a lot of disvalue.)