Here’s another framing: if you claim that asteroid detection saves 300K lives per $100, pandemic prevention saves 200M lives per $100, and GiveWell interventions save 0.025 lives per $100, isn’t it a bit odd to fund the latter?
Or: longtermists claim that what matters most is the very long term effects of our actions. How is that being implemented here?
Casting everything into some longtermist/neartermist thing online seems unhealthy.
Longtermists make very strong claims (eg. “positively influencing the longterm future is *the* key moral priority of our time”). It seems healthy to follow up on those claims, and not sweep under the rug any seeming contradictions.
what does “unanimously” mean?
I chose that word to reflect Will’s statement that everyone at FTX was “totally on board”, in contrast to his expectations of an internal fight. Does that make sense?
Here’s another framing: if you claim that asteroid detection saves 300K lives per $100, pandemic prevention saves 200M lives per $100, and GiveWell interventions save 0.025 lives per $100, isn’t it a bit odd to fund the latter?
Or: longtermists claim that what matters most is the very long term effects of our actions. How is that being implemented here?
Longtermists make very strong claims (eg. “positively influencing the longterm future is *the* key moral priority of our time”). It seems healthy to follow up on those claims, and not sweep under the rug any seeming contradictions.
I chose that word to reflect Will’s statement that everyone at FTX was “totally on board”, in contrast to his expectations of an internal fight. Does that make sense?