Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Will! I agree what matters is the additional altruistic impact caused by engaging with the Forum. However, I think my point holds as long as people have accurate views about how to maximise their altruistic impact.
For example, if you believed “factual impact of your marginal hour on the Forum”—“counterfactual impact of this hour” < “impact of donating 100 $[1] to the organisation or project you consider the most cost-effective”, and using the Forum costed 100 $/h, I think you would have a greater altruistic impact by your own lights by spending less time on the Forum, and donating the savings. Do you agree?
Analogously, if the user spending the marginal hour on the Forum believed “factual impact of their marginal hour on the Forum”—“counterfactual impact of this hour” < “impact of donating 6.17 $ to the organisations or projects they consider the most cost-effective”, and using the Forum costed 6.17 $, I think they would have a greater altruistic impact by their own lights by spending less time on the Forum, and donating the savings. In this case, if the marginal user-hour costed 6.17 $ to the Forum team[2], I believe they would also increase altruistic impact in the eyes of the user of the marginal hour by spending less time generating engagement on the Forum, and donating the savings to the organisations or projects that user considers the most cost-effective.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Will! I agree what matters is the additional altruistic impact caused by engaging with the Forum. However, I think my point holds as long as people have accurate views about how to maximise their altruistic impact.
For example, if you believed “factual impact of your marginal hour on the Forum”—“counterfactual impact of this hour” < “impact of donating 100 $[1] to the organisation or project you consider the most cost-effective”, and using the Forum costed 100 $/h, I think you would have a greater altruistic impact by your own lights by spending less time on the Forum, and donating the savings. Do you agree?
Analogously, if the user spending the marginal hour on the Forum believed “factual impact of their marginal hour on the Forum”—“counterfactual impact of this hour” < “impact of donating 6.17 $ to the organisations or projects they consider the most cost-effective”, and using the Forum costed 6.17 $, I think they would have a greater altruistic impact by their own lights by spending less time on the Forum, and donating the savings. In this case, if the marginal user-hour costed 6.17 $ to the Forum team[2], I believe they would also increase altruistic impact in the eyes of the user of the marginal hour by spending less time generating engagement on the Forum, and donating the savings to the organisations or projects that user considers the most cost-effective.
Implying the marginal cost-effectiveness of your time on the Forum is 25 % (= 400⁄100) of the past cost-effectiveness.
I guess it costs more due to increasing user-hours becoming more difficult as user-hours increase.