Thank you for the detailed criticism, I appreciate it. I’ve tried to improve some of the elements, though I don’t see obvious improvements to most of the mathematical treatment and explanation; feel free to point out specific things. The values in the examples are somewhat arbitrary, meant to cover a wide spectrum of possibilities, and are placeholders for your own assumptions. As long as I’ve made the underlying variables sufficiently general and their explanations sufficiently clear, my hope is for this to be straightforward. The final result is the percent reduction in existential disaster that would have to be expected in order to justify sacrificing a recreation in order to work on existential risk reduction, which is noted way up in the 4th paragraph. Please let me know if there is something I can do beyond this interpretation.
Thank you for the detailed criticism, I appreciate it. I’ve tried to improve some of the elements, though I don’t see obvious improvements to most of the mathematical treatment and explanation; feel free to point out specific things. The values in the examples are somewhat arbitrary, meant to cover a wide spectrum of possibilities, and are placeholders for your own assumptions. As long as I’ve made the underlying variables sufficiently general and their explanations sufficiently clear, my hope is for this to be straightforward. The final result is the percent reduction in existential disaster that would have to be expected in order to justify sacrificing a recreation in order to work on existential risk reduction, which is noted way up in the 4th paragraph. Please let me know if there is something I can do beyond this interpretation.