Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes August 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 04 August 2012 02:39:48AM 21 points [-]

… and I’d get back like $20,000. And I could save hundreds of people from dying of starvation with that money.

According to GiveWell, you could save ten people with that much.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 August 2012 08:42:22AM 9 points [-]

To save ten lives via FAI, you have to accelerate FAI development by 6 seconds.

Comment author: TGM 30 August 2012 08:48:36AM 3 points [-]

Aren't you using different measures of what 'saving a life' is, anyway? The starving-child-save gives you about 60 years of extra life, whereas the FAI save gives something rather more.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 August 2012 02:08:56PM 5 points [-]

...then what are you doing here? Get back to work!

Comment author: Vaniver 30 August 2012 02:21:12PM 3 points [-]

Advocacy and movement-building?

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