I have yet to familiarize myself more with effective altruism to know the details of their metrics, but it seems like the reliance on ‘number of lives saved per unit money’ doesn’t necessarily align with the goal of helping people, which i think this post demonstrates well. And then there’s the arguably relevant issue of over-population. If everyone contributed some of their education funding on saving lives, wouldn’t the Earth get over-populated before sufficient technological progress was made to e.g inhabit another planet?
I have yet to familiarize myself more with effective altruism to know the details of their metrics, but it seems like the reliance on ‘number of lives saved per unit money’ doesn’t necessarily align with the goal of helping people, which i think this post demonstrates well. And then there’s the arguably relevant issue of over-population. If everyone contributed some of their education funding on saving lives, wouldn’t the Earth get over-populated before sufficient technological progress was made to e.g inhabit another planet?