ModusPonies comments on Gun Control: How would we know? - Less Wrong

11 Post author: rlpowell 20 December 2012 08:14PM

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Comment author: ModusPonies 21 December 2012 02:36:52PM 2 points [-]

$2.5 million is a thousand times greater than the marginal cost of saving a life via effective altruism.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 December 2012 02:54:54PM 9 points [-]

But the lives you'd save via effective altruism are not American lives! ;-)

Comment author: Alsadius 21 December 2012 08:21:13PM 1 point [-]

Yes, but nobody expects government action to be effective.