Theron

Karma: 71

The Rules of Rescue—out now!

Theron17 Dec 2022 9:02 UTC

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Theron 23 Nov 2019 14:34 UTC
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on: EA syllabi and teaching materials
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Risky Giving*

Theron25 May 2016 20:10 UTC

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0 comments12 min readEA link

Theron 19 Dec 2014 21:59 UTC
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in reply to: Geuss’s comment on: Optional whether to give, therefore optional where to give?
Not sure I can offer you a demonstration of the main thesis, but I was hoping that people would share my intuition about the two lakes case. (Also see the Kagan burning building case in note 2.) The reference to Parfit was only for those who have doubts that one should save the greater number.