mattnewport comments on Against Cryonics & For Cost-Effective Charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mattnewport 10 August 2010 09:15:30PM *  2 points [-]

I agree. It seems likely to me that for-profit investment in developing new technologies (and commercializing existing technologies on a large scale) has had a greater positive impact on human welfare than charitable spending over the last few hundred years. Given that it has also made a lot of early investors wealthy in the process (while no doubt also destroying the wealth of many more) and likely has a net positive expected return on investment I personally like it as a way to allocate some of my resources.