I wanted to write briefly to say a sincere thanks for writing this. I wrote a previous EA forum piece on kidney donation (which I think was linked here), have worked on the issue for a number of years, and answered some questions about kidney donation for Scott Alexander (whose post I believe prompted this one). I haven’t been working on kidney donation for my day job for a while, and I wish I had the time to comment on this piece more thoughtfully. But I did just want to chime in and say I really appreciate your writing this. I don’t agree with all the points, but I believe many of them are cogent and are worth serious consideration by people exploring kidney donation. I know it’s not easy to publicly critique arguments made my influential people in the EA community, and I think it’s a very valuable thing and you should be commended for it.
I wanted to write briefly to say a sincere thanks for writing this. I wrote a previous EA forum piece on kidney donation (which I think was linked here), have worked on the issue for a number of years, and answered some questions about kidney donation for Scott Alexander (whose post I believe prompted this one). I haven’t been working on kidney donation for my day job for a while, and I wish I had the time to comment on this piece more thoughtfully. But I did just want to chime in and say I really appreciate your writing this. I don’t agree with all the points, but I believe many of them are cogent and are worth serious consideration by people exploring kidney donation. I know it’s not easy to publicly critique arguments made my influential people in the EA community, and I think it’s a very valuable thing and you should be commended for it.