Good to hear what you’re up to, seems like a very promising project to me! A few questions about WELLBY though
1) How do you envision WELLBY interacting with the SWB community? Is the long term plan that this will remain a metric developed by you or is the long term plan for this to be a more independent measurement that for SWB researchers use and improve upon without any involvement from you
2) Do you see it being a long term “competitor” to other metrics such as QALYs and DALYs as they are used in global health today, or do you imagine it being something that only organizations in EA or perhaps mental health use in the foreseeable future?
3) how does “Well-being-adjusted life years” get shortened into “WELLBY” rather than “WALY”, “WBALY” or at least “WELLBALY”??? :( Did you consider the negative effects on the reader’s WELLBY caused by the confusion about how that abbreviation works? :’(
I can’t believe how irresponsible this post is!!
Teaching kids how to solve the Tower of Hanoi? The game that is said to end the world when one such puzzle is finished?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi#Origins
Even if we only put a tiny probability of those stories being true the outcome is bad enough that we should avoid it at all costs! We should instead be teaching people to always solve Tower of Hanoi’s incorrectly. The cost of failing some technical interview is worth it to not risk ending the world!