John_Maxwell_IV comments on Another Critique of Effective Altruism - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 06 January 2014 05:50:08PM *  10 points [-]

Prominent EA Julia Wise and her husband have decided to have kids. IMO, a good way to think about EA is that everyone makes their own trade-off between their own quality of life and the quality of life of others. You can also think of helping people in terms of scoring points.

Comment author: benkuhn 06 January 2014 06:15:31PM *  2 points [-]

FYI, her last name is just Wise.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 07 January 2014 07:19:23AM 0 points [-]

Ack! Sorry!

Comment author: BarbaraB 06 January 2014 07:01:17PM 0 points [-]

Prominent EA Julia Wiseman and her husband have decided to have kids.

I am glad to hear it, because they were the most annoying example for me before. Good for her / them.