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1. Like @lxrjl my @threadapalooza contribution will be judging ideas associated with the Effective Altruism community (and is taking place on the wrong day)
Unlike him I will be rating all ideas on a 1-7 scale based on how much I endorse them as good/useful/correct
Let's go!
Unlike him I will be rating all ideas on a 1-7 scale based on how much I endorse them as good/useful/correct
Let's go!
2. "A person is a person no matter where they're born"
YES 100% probably indesputable. If I have an pneumonia and a person in a tiny Nigerian village has pneumonia, we should both get antibiotics - I am not intrinsically more "deserving" in any way!
Rating: 7/7
YES 100% probably indesputable. If I have an pneumonia and a person in a tiny Nigerian village has pneumonia, we should both get antibiotics - I am not intrinsically more "deserving" in any way!
Rating: 7/7
(3 oof I'm already getting nervous that I'm going to say something wrong! scary!)
4 "A person's a person no matter when they're born"
To some extent I agree: I do want people in the future to have good lives. That's why I care about climate change!
To some extent I agree: I do want people in the future to have good lives. That's why I care about climate change!
5 Uncertainties:
a) if someone's never born, that's not as bad as dying, right?
b) even if I agree theoretically, what's the best thing I can do to help? (possibly just help people in my own time - no one else can help them)
c) discount rates (more on this later)
Rating: 5/7
a) if someone's never born, that's not as bad as dying, right?
b) even if I agree theoretically, what's the best thing I can do to help? (possibly just help people in my own time - no one else can help them)
c) discount rates (more on this later)
Rating: 5/7
6. "Your charity dollars can do more good in a developing country than in your own country"
I mean... yes? This is just a question you can answer by doing some research. I'm pretty convinced.
Rating: 7/7
I mean... yes? This is just a question you can answer by doing some research. I'm pretty convinced.
Rating: 7/7
7. The more interesting question is "do we have a special obligation to people in our own country?"
I would say yes, we have an obligation to our country, community and especially family, but if you're in the top 10% of richness you should help everyone
https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i
I would say yes, we have an obligation to our country, community and especially family, but if you're in the top 10% of richness you should help everyone
https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i
(8. Side rant: If you live in country that benefited from colonizing other countries and extracting wealth from them, and you're benefiting from the roads and hospitals and universities made with that money, you have a special obligation to those countries!)
(9. I'm especially looking at FRANCE who forced HAITI to PAY THEM $21 BILLION IN REPARATIONS FOR REFUSING TO BE THEIR SLAVES ANYMORE)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy#:~:text=The%20Haiti%20indemnity%20controversy%20culminated,through%20the%20Haitian%20Revolution%20in
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy#:~:text=The%20Haiti%20indemnity%20controversy%20culminated,through%20the%20Haitian%20Revolution%20in
10. "Some charities are much more effective than others"
Part of it probably comes down to the fact that their beneficiaries aren't the ones deciding if they get more funding
Rating: 7/7 https://mobile.twitter.com/ellegist/status/1339670240318337024
Part of it probably comes down to the fact that their beneficiaries aren't the ones deciding if they get more funding
Rating: 7/7 https://mobile.twitter.com/ellegist/status/1339670240318337024
11. "If you could save X chickens from torture, it'd be better than saving one human, if you could only save one"
ugghhh like I guess if you had an entire planet of suffering chickens??? I don't know, I'm sorry, I just don't think you can compare chickens and people
Rating: 2/7
ugghhh like I guess if you had an entire planet of suffering chickens??? I don't know, I'm sorry, I just don't think you can compare chickens and people
Rating: 2/7
I'm gonna leave this for tonight and come back to it.
You shouldn't take any of my ratings as your own - these are important questions that are worth thinking through!
You shouldn't take any of my ratings as your own - these are important questions that are worth thinking through!
12. okay okay ONE more tonight:
"You could just donate a kidney to a stranger"
you totally could though, for real. we shouldn't let this distract us from policy solutions to organ shortages but it would be pretty badass.
Rating: 7/7
"You could just donate a kidney to a stranger"
you totally could though, for real. we shouldn't let this distract us from policy solutions to organ shortages but it would be pretty badass.
Rating: 7/7
