Should have donated to the Clinton Foundation. They do great work.
Trolling HN will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank you dang
$250k books sold, to save lives
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Re: $250k books sold, to save lives
#52Interesting. This baselines the cost of one life to $2000 effectively. So I could trade two lives for a top of the line Macbook Pro. Buy an SF home for 500 lives. I spend one human life to live in SF every month. Huh.
The notion of "Dead Child Currency" ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6cRhG6PKeASdNHqxD/dead-child... ) may intrigue you.
The original "Dead Child Currency" (also linked from what you posted)
https://www.gwern.net/docs/philo/2011-yvain-deadchild.html
I think it's a classic!
Re: $250k books sold, to save lives
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> cheapened it I don't follow. Does broadcasting this on the internet reduce the number of lives saved? The point of altruism to save lives, so as long as those are maximized, I don't see any "cheapening" happening.
The point of altruism when you broadcast is to feel good yourself. The number of lives saved remains the same whether you broadcast it or not. So, what's the point in broadcasting?
Others are convinced to follow on your footsteps.
The reason I started giving to AMF was because a friend of mine posted about their giving to AMF. I would have been less likely to do so if I hadn't seen that post, so broadcasting probably led to more lives saved. Another friend of mine said he was also motivated to give by seeing the very same post.
Anyway, I didn't claim that broadcasting is positive, or has a point. I simply responded to the claim that broadcasting "cheapens" altruism.
Re: $250k books sold, to save lives
#54I see that on the pages about each of his books, all of the chapters are listed. Are those actually the complete chapters or only excerpts?
They are the full chapters.