As my colleagues have mentioned in their responses (Michael’s general response, Joel’s technical response), the WELLBYs per $1000 that GiveWell put forward for AMF are dependent on philosophical choices about the badness of death and the neutral point. There are a range of plausible possible choices and these can affect the results. HLI does not hold a view.
We’ve whipped up an R Shiny app so that you, the reader, can play around with these choices and see how your views affect the comparison between StrongMinds and AMF.
Please note that this is a work in progress and was done very quickly. Also, I’m using the free plan for hosting the app so it might be a bit slow/limited in monthly bandwidth.
This is really helpful! One suggestion for future improvement would be to allow the user to specify a mix among the philosophical views (or at least to be able to select predefined mixes of those views).
As my colleagues have mentioned in their responses (Michael’s general response, Joel’s technical response), the WELLBYs per $1000 that GiveWell put forward for AMF are dependent on philosophical choices about the badness of death and the neutral point. There are a range of plausible possible choices and these can affect the results. HLI does not hold a view.
We’ve whipped up an R Shiny app so that you, the reader, can play around with these choices and see how your views affect the comparison between StrongMinds and AMF.
Please note that this is a work in progress and was done very quickly. Also, I’m using the free plan for hosting the app so it might be a bit slow/limited in monthly bandwidth.
This is really helpful! One suggestion for future improvement would be to allow the user to specify a mix among the philosophical views (or at least to be able to select predefined mixes of those views).
Thank you for the feedback! We are keen on that feature too, distributing credences between the views is the next step I am working on.