duel (on the spreadsheets) with certain perspectives in longtermism, there is a danger of “losing” heavily, if a person just relies on “numbers” or “marginal utility” per dollar.
Can you elaborate? What do you mean by “losing”? Isn’t the case for longtermism that longtermist interventions have the highest combination of importance, tractability, and crowdedness (ie. the highest MU/$)?
Can you elaborate? What do you mean by “losing”? Isn’t the case for longtermism that longtermist interventions have the highest combination of importance, tractability, and crowdedness (ie. the highest MU/$)?