You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

ModusPonies comments on Gun Control: How would we know? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: rlpowell 20 December 2012 08:14PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (167)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: ModusPonies 21 December 2012 02:36:52PM 2 points [-]

$2.5 million is a thousand times greater than the marginal cost of saving a life via effective altruism.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 December 2012 02:54:54PM 9 points [-]

But the lives you'd save via effective altruism are not American lives! ;-)

Comment author: Alsadius 21 December 2012 08:21:13PM 1 point [-]

Yes, but nobody expects government action to be effective.