I may not be able to do FAI research, but I can do what I’m actually doing, which is donating a significant fraction of my income to people who can.
But why do you care about that? It’s grossly improbable that out of the vast space of things-to-protect, you were dispotitioned to care about that thing before hearing of the concept. So you’re probably just shopping for a cause in exactly the way EY advises against.
To put it another way… for the vast majorty of humans, their real thing-to-protect is probably their children, or their lover, or their closest friend. The fact that this is overwhelmingly underrepresented on LW indicates something funny is going on.
I’m not going to read all of that. Responding to a series of increasingly long replies is a negative-sum game.
I’ll respond to a few choice parts though:
Most of this thread: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/jyl/two_arguments_for_not_thinking_about_ethics_too/
But why do you care about that? It’s grossly improbable that out of the vast space of things-to-protect, you were dispotitioned to care about that thing before hearing of the concept. So you’re probably just shopping for a cause in exactly the way EY advises against.
To put it another way… for the vast majorty of humans, their real thing-to-protect is probably their children, or their lover, or their closest friend. The fact that this is overwhelmingly underrepresented on LW indicates something funny is going on.
The downside to not reading what I write is that when you write your own long reply, it’s an argument against a misunderstood version of my position.
I am done with you. Hasta nunca.