owencb comments on A critique of effective altruism - LessWrong

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Comment author: owencb 03 December 2013 07:33:04PM 1 point [-]

There are questions about why we should discount at all, or if we are going to, how to choose an appropriate rate.

But even setting those aside: this isn't any more of a solution than the version without discounting. They're similarly reliant on empirical facts about the world (the rate of resource growth); they just give differing answers about how fast that rate needs to be before you should wait rather than cash out.