jsteinhardt comments on Another Critique of Effective Altruism - Less Wrong

19 Post author: jsteinhardt 05 January 2014 09:51AM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 06 January 2014 08:24:40AM 1 point [-]

I thought it was clear from the "Over-reliance on a small set of tools" section that I am strongly against relying on DALYs or similar metrics. Although I disagree with the framing of the solution being to weight different people differently. I'd prefer to move beyond the "maximize weighted sum of happiness" framing entirely (although still retain it as one of many reasoning tools).

Comment author: pianoforte611 06 January 2014 01:38:52PM 0 points [-]

Good point sorry, what criteria would you use?