Thank you for writing and doing this. It moved me to read how putting cold calculations next to your warm personal connection with them is inhumanly strange and absurd.
To me it means that I discovered a new priviledge of living in a rich country. Where we can abstract donating behaviour from the decision process of who gets the help.
I kind of look at the EA-principles as a good way of sharpening my intuitions of impact in a far away country. But for you its different: as a medical professional, your intuition of where the most good can be done will be spot on, in comparison to me atleast.
While it’s interesting to see the calculations, I would think it’s more healthy in your context to stick to your medical intuition in combination to how likely is it that this person will die if you don’t help financially.
I’ve got a slight pushback here. I don’t think my intuition of where the most good can be done is actually all that good at all, even now after thinking more deeply from an effective-altruism perspectives. It often surprises me when I crunch the numbers that what I intuitively think might be best doesn’t stack up. Others intuition might be far better though.
When its a doctors’ own patient though, part of their role might be (arguably) to advocate for that patient cost-effectiveness be darned. Not sure what I think about that though.
Thank you for writing and doing this. It moved me to read how putting cold calculations next to your warm personal connection with them is inhumanly strange and absurd. To me it means that I discovered a new priviledge of living in a rich country. Where we can abstract donating behaviour from the decision process of who gets the help.
I kind of look at the EA-principles as a good way of sharpening my intuitions of impact in a far away country. But for you its different: as a medical professional, your intuition of where the most good can be done will be spot on, in comparison to me atleast.
While it’s interesting to see the calculations, I would think it’s more healthy in your context to stick to your medical intuition in combination to how likely is it that this person will die if you don’t help financially.
Thank you for being an amazing person.
Thanks for the sentiment and appreciation @Mathieu Spillebeen
I’ve got a slight pushback here. I don’t think my intuition of where the most good can be done is actually all that good at all, even now after thinking more deeply from an effective-altruism perspectives. It often surprises me when I crunch the numbers that what I intuitively think might be best doesn’t stack up. Others intuition might be far better though.
When its a doctors’ own patient though, part of their role might be (arguably) to advocate for that patient cost-effectiveness be darned. Not sure what I think about that though.