Thanks for this. Totally apart from all the crucially important work you guys do at openphil, I have a weird personal interest in finding ways to estimate and compare the value of time, health, risk, etc, under different circumstances. (For instance—exactly how beneficial is exercise? How much is my free time worth? How should I weigh an extra year of savings against the costs of an extra year of high-income work? Etc… these questions seem esoteric but they can become surprisingly important for big lifestyle & career decisions.) Lots of people consider these issues, but often they do so in a shallow or incomplete way. Seeing this kind of expert, well-researched utilitarian reasoning helps me think more clearly about these questions in my own life.
Thanks for this. Totally apart from all the crucially important work you guys do at openphil, I have a weird personal interest in finding ways to estimate and compare the value of time, health, risk, etc, under different circumstances. (For instance—exactly how beneficial is exercise? How much is my free time worth? How should I weigh an extra year of savings against the costs of an extra year of high-income work? Etc… these questions seem esoteric but they can become surprisingly important for big lifestyle & career decisions.) Lots of people consider these issues, but often they do so in a shallow or incomplete way. Seeing this kind of expert, well-researched utilitarian reasoning helps me think more clearly about these questions in my own life.