high status EA Yvain endorse donating 10% of one’s income.
Yvain’s EA tithing is much like a resource sliced utilitarianism, similar to the time sliced utilitarianism I’ve often seen around here. There is a natural fit between the two, sliced or not.
By time sliced utilitarianism, I mean operating as a utilitarian for some percentage of time. Well, not really, but that’s close.
In discussions about utilitarianism, some people here call it utilitarianism when for a particular choice, they choose to maximize total utility. Sometimes, they’re a utilitarian. Or so they say. That’s what I’m referring to by “time sliced utilitarian”.
If you take a chunk of your money, and say “I want to maximize total utility with this money”, that could similarly be called a resource sliced (some chunk of my assets) utilitarian, but it also seems to accurately be EA.
Yvain’s EA tithing is much like a resource sliced utilitarianism, similar to the time sliced utilitarianism I’ve often seen around here. There is a natural fit between the two, sliced or not.
Can you explain these terms, please?
I made them up.
By time sliced utilitarianism, I mean operating as a utilitarian for some percentage of time. Well, not really, but that’s close.
In discussions about utilitarianism, some people here call it utilitarianism when for a particular choice, they choose to maximize total utility. Sometimes, they’re a utilitarian. Or so they say. That’s what I’m referring to by “time sliced utilitarian”.
If you take a chunk of your money, and say “I want to maximize total utility with this money”, that could similarly be called a resource sliced (some chunk of my assets) utilitarian, but it also seems to accurately be EA.