Vaniver comments on A critique of effective altruism - Less Wrong

64 Post author: benkuhn 02 December 2013 04:53PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 02 December 2013 08:32:04PM 1 point [-]

This seems to encourage Pascal's mugging.

This is one reason why I think the argument is only moderately strong.

Comment author: Strange7 14 December 2013 09:42:29AM 0 points [-]

Maybe include plausibility, but put some effort into coming up with pessimistic estimates?