dvasya comments on The Value of Those in Effective Altruism - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 17 February 2016 12:59AM

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Comment author: dvasya 18 February 2016 12:07:23AM -2 points [-]

Losing a typical EA ... decreasing ~1000 utilons to ~3.5, so a ~28500% reduction per person lost.

You seem to be exaggerating a bit here: that's a 99.65% reduction. Hope it's the only inaccuracy in your estimates!

Comment author: alicey 18 February 2016 12:16:40AM 1 point [-]

tomayto tomahto

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 18 February 2016 02:18:08AM 1 point [-]

As the comment below indicates, I think we don't disagree on the math, it's the semantics issue. When I talk about reduction per person lost, I compare the utilons from a typical person to the typical EA., which is a 996.5 utilon difference. So comparing that is 996.5/3.5 * 100% = 28471%.