Pablo_Stafforini comments on Some reservations about Singer's child-in-the-pond argument - Less Wrong

21 Post author: JonahSinick 19 June 2013 11:54PM

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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 20 June 2013 04:53:31PM *  3 points [-]

But Jonah is not merely saying that some sufficiently big difference between Singer's estimates and the most credible estimates would affect his argument. He is making the stronger claim that the actual difference is big enough to make the argument far less credible.