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Comment author: ChristianKl 10 July 2015 08:22:12PM -1 points [-]

Lives or QALYs are the only things on the EA table at present.

How do you come to that conclusion? When the Open Philanthropy project researches whether why should spend more effort on dealing with the risk of solar storms, how's that Lives or QALYs?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 10 July 2015 09:03:47PM 1 point [-]

Well, what measure are they using?

Comment author: ChristianKl 10 July 2015 09:13:55PM 0 points [-]

I don't think there's a single measure. There rather an attempt to understand all the effects of an intervention as best as possible.

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