soreff comments on Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others... - Less Wrong

130 Post author: Yvain 24 December 2010 09:26PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 26 December 2010 12:50:20AM 6 points [-]

Replace "save lives" with "extend lifespans." All the math will suddenly start working out better.

Comment author: soreff 26 December 2010 05:19:32AM 2 points [-]

Agreed, I retrospect I should have phrased the original question in terms of QALYs or some similar metric.