FormallyknownasRoko comments on Efficient Charity - Less Wrong

31 Post author: multifoliaterose 04 December 2010 10:27AM

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Comment author: FormallyknownasRoko 04 December 2010 11:55:09PM 3 points [-]

I think it's pretty clear that scalable public goods are more effective than per-person interventions like giving a child a pill or a vaccination. But scalable public goods are really hard to analyze; e.g. existential risk mitigation.

We just want a nice simple case to get people started on.