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MattG comments on Tentative Thoughts on the Cost Effectiveness of the SENS Foundation - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Fluttershy 04 January 2015 02:58AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 January 2015 06:02:33AM 2 points [-]

Seems like your model completely neglects to include uncertainty in it... it assumes that in 10 years breakthroughs will definitely be made... a better cost effectiveness model might be cost effectiveness of how much funding would increase the likeliness of a breakthrough, and would almost certainly lead to immediately lower estimates (without even trying to account for the typical reasons that interventions are less effective than they initially appear)

Comment author: CellBioGuy 08 January 2015 02:23:21AM 1 point [-]

This is an enormous problem with this model.