eli_sennesh comments on Another Critique of Effective Altruism - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 January 2014 03:51:16PM -1 points [-]

I mean that he appears to believe society gains net utility from keeping each individual prisoner in jail, versus releasing them, but also keeping all the prisoners in jail as a group, versus releasing them all. I'm choosing not to distinguish between the admittedly separate effects of one person being released versus an entire organized/self-organized group being released together.

I'm just saying that I think there are many obvious cases in which we could release prisoners at a net gain to society.