I’m not questioning scope insensitivity in general here, but can someone explain to me why does it matter what number of birds they’re trying to save? Obviously, your contribution alone is not going to save them all (unless your’re rich and donating a lot of money), and, if you don’t know anything about how efficient those programs are, you may as well assume a fixed amount of money will save a fixed number of birds.
I think the original stipulation was not “how much would you give to a program saving X, Y or Z birds?”, but “how much would you pay to save X, Y or Z birds?” in which the fixed amount of money is explicitly saving different numbers.
No, it doesn’t. That kind of possibility never exists in the real world: “name a quantity to save all birds”. It’s unreasonable to expect even the most rational of all to behave like a computer in that kind of situation.
I’m not questioning scope insensitivity in general here, but can someone explain to me why does it matter what number of birds they’re trying to save? Obviously, your contribution alone is not going to save them all (unless your’re rich and donating a lot of money), and, if you don’t know anything about how efficient those programs are, you may as well assume a fixed amount of money will save a fixed number of birds.
I think the original stipulation was not “how much would you give to a program saving X, Y or Z birds?”, but “how much would you pay to save X, Y or Z birds?” in which the fixed amount of money is explicitly saving different numbers.
Ah, ok, makes sense.
No, it doesn’t. That kind of possibility never exists in the real world: “name a quantity to save all birds”. It’s unreasonable to expect even the most rational of all to behave like a computer in that kind of situation.