What does he think about the idea that we can’t really justify giving to global health charities because we are clueless about the long-term impacts of doing so. For example, we should expect such giving to have impacts on population size now and in the future but it is highly unclear if the net effect of this is positive or negative in moral terms, and it doesn’t seem OK to just ignore this and assume it equals zero in expected value.
Or just generally his thoughts on the problem of cluelessness and how we should respond to it.
What does he think about the idea that we can’t really justify giving to global health charities because we are clueless about the long-term impacts of doing so. For example, we should expect such giving to have impacts on population size now and in the future but it is highly unclear if the net effect of this is positive or negative in moral terms, and it doesn’t seem OK to just ignore this and assume it equals zero in expected value.
Or just generally his thoughts on the problem of cluelessness and how we should respond to it.