Thanks for the post! Transplanting a comment from the open thread:
Your thoughts about about trading inconveniences and displeasures are interesting. Would it be good to encourage a norm that all goods and “currencies” that take part in one’s altruism activities should be tradeable with one another? Is this psychologically realistic?
A similar set of themes came up in the recent post about kidney donation: “we wouldn’t encourage someone to donate a kidney if it meant they would forego significant donations to GiveWell’s top charities. But we don’t see why that should be the case, since giving a kidney is a complement to and not a replacement for monetary donation.” Would you make roughly the same argument there as you do about trading inconvenience and displeasure?
Thanks for the post! Transplanting a comment from the open thread:
Your thoughts about about trading inconveniences and displeasures are interesting. Would it be good to encourage a norm that all goods and “currencies” that take part in one’s altruism activities should be tradeable with one another? Is this psychologically realistic?
A similar set of themes came up in the recent post about kidney donation: “we wouldn’t encourage someone to donate a kidney if it meant they would forego significant donations to GiveWell’s top charities. But we don’t see why that should be the case, since giving a kidney is a complement to and not a replacement for monetary donation.” Would you make roughly the same argument there as you do about trading inconvenience and displeasure?