Comments on: Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:52:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: zz http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/#comment-173295 Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:07:21 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3480#comment-173295 I just checked your “top posts” link and noticed that this post isn’t there. This, Scott, is the single best post you’ve ever written. It belongs in “top posts”. Maybe not on top (goodness knows, it requires having read a bunch of your earlier stuff to have its full impact), but this is the absolute best thing you’ve ever written. Posts tagged ‘charity’ may not be popular, but you do charity no favor by not putting your best post ever, with its ‘charity’ tag, in your list of top posts.

And, in case you missed it, this is the best post on this blog.

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]]> By: dlr http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/#comment-172347 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 04:51:53 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3480#comment-172347 How about people who would like to contribute to bio-medical research? Is there any organization that suggests the best place to funnel those dollars to?

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]]> By: Elim http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/#comment-170789 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 00:06:38 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3480#comment-170789 “…and marrying Third World refugees who need visas rather than your one true love.”

I read this, and, well, it seems obvious. Is there a place where I can find refugees who desperately need visas? Is there any reason that I shouldn’t marry one (and perhaps successively divorce, and marry another, in whatever time-frame is required by the law)?

Where can I get more information?

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]]> By: Naveen http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/#comment-170611 Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:52:07 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3480#comment-170611 Ah didnt know that, but it makes a ton of sense. Thanks!

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/#comment-170602 Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:31:39 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3480#comment-170602 Givewell was founded by people from Bridgewater specifically to help their colleagues direct their donations. A lot of EA is advising people to go into finance to earn more money.

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]]> By: Naveen http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/#comment-170193 Fri, 02 Jan 2015 08:05:09 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3480#comment-170193 Big fan of your writing Scott, and this article in particular. You seem as good a person to ask this (possibly silly) question as any.

It seems like the effective altruism community is pretty heavily comprised of people in tech, science, and math. Do you have any sense of whether there is much representation from the hedge fund/ finance crowd? As a member of the latter I think a lot of people in my industry would be very receptive to the ideas of EA. If there isn’t a lot of overlap between the communities already I can’t help but think there should be, and am wondering whether I should devote some time trying to do some networking on both sides to help make it happen.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/#comment-169616 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:57:40 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3480#comment-169616 ” Exactly what am I supposed to be apologizing for here? I may benefit from the genocide of the Indians in that I live on land that was formerly Indian-occupied.”
I really don’t like how this statement assumes that groups have some right to land that their ancestors occupied. It might have been wrong to those now dead, but it not a wrong to those now alive, especially if they participated in a society that didn’t convey property rights through inheritance. However, it is even more wrong to assume that such a group exists in a meaningful sense in the context of today, any more that assigning rights to England or France does, or the rights of tribes that predated the tribes known at colonial times. This is buying into a worldview that wants to divide us by groups in order to make unjust claims of power in the (false) name of justice.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/#comment-169600 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:58:18 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3480#comment-169600 Yes, that is the difference between average and total utilitarianism. Whether having lots of unhappy people is actually good for total utilitarianism depends on lots of details, both factual, and also moral, like what kind of life is equivalent to no life according to your utility function. Derek Parfit call this problem the “Repugnant Conclusion.”

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]]> By: Earning to give is systemic change - 80,000 Hours http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/#comment-169578 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:15:36 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3480#comment-169578 […] a recent post, Scott Alexander points out that if everyone gave 10% of their income it would be $7 trillion each […]

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]]> By: Nikias The Random Blog Commenter http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/#comment-169281 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:39:29 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3480#comment-169281 Perhaps utilitarian-essays.com ?

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