Thanks for the feedback. Thinking about it for a minute, it seems like your first point is more than just stylistic criticism. By “better” i meant we have strong intuitions about first person subjective experience, but i now realize the way I phrased it might be begging the question.
Why do you think I’m making that assumption? I assume EAs care about all of these things with some reasonable exchange rate between all the three. Assuming you only care about doesn’t this bias you towards enhaving subjective experience, pain relief etc (eg. Give Directly, Strong Minds etc) versus life saving interventions that might be barely net positive anyway, especially because things like malarial bed nets don’t have other positive externalities (unlike something like deworming) I agree it’s also an update towards any other things EAs could plausibly do, such as institutional imrprovements/human capital development etc.
Thanks for the feedback. Thinking about it for a minute, it seems like your first point is more than just stylistic criticism. By “better” i meant we have strong intuitions about first person subjective experience, but i now realize the way I phrased it might be begging the question.
Why do you think I’m making that assumption? I assume EAs care about all of these things with some reasonable exchange rate between all the three. Assuming you only care about doesn’t this bias you towards enhaving subjective experience, pain relief etc (eg. Give Directly, Strong Minds etc) versus life saving interventions that might be barely net positive anyway, especially because things like malarial bed nets don’t have other positive externalities (unlike something like deworming) I agree it’s also an update towards any other things EAs could plausibly do, such as institutional imrprovements/human capital development etc.