atucker comments on On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: atucker 12 January 2012 09:26:09PM -1 points [-]

I like the first argument more than the second.

"How do we know that not donating to this one poor child with a rare cancer will actually save a bunch of Africans?" would be justified, even though if you're going for lives saved you really should just go with the Africans. Now, it helps that we have metrics, but you still have to decide to do something ever.