Yes, yes, all of that is good, that is an excellent list of some of the downsides one should measure. It reminds me of nothing so much as an Effective Altruist trying to measure the advantages of an intervention to find things they can measure and put into a report. Yes, they will say, here is a thing called ‘development’ so it counts as something that can be put into the utility function and we can attach a number, excellent, very good. Then we can pretend that this is a full measure of how things actually work, and still imply that anyone who doesn’t give enough money is sort of kind of like Mega-Hitler, especially given all these matching funds.
This seems like it’s alluding to a more detailed, strongly-held, and (if correct) damning assessment of (at least early-years) effective altruism. I’d like to understand that position more. Have you written about this elsewhere?
Moreover, it is unclear to me what point the OP is making about the list of potential downsides of wearing masks. Perhaps it helps to already know his position on that matter?
I’m curious about this passage:
This seems like it’s alluding to a more detailed, strongly-held, and (if correct) damning assessment of (at least early-years) effective altruism. I’d like to understand that position more. Have you written about this elsewhere?
Moreover, it is unclear to me what point the OP is making about the list of potential downsides of wearing masks. Perhaps it helps to already know his position on that matter?