There recently was a post on LW (to which I’ll provide a link as soon as I get behind a ‘proper’ computer rather than a smartphone) making the point that the expected number of lives you save is much higher if you donate $400 than if you donate a kidney, so if you’re indifferent between losing $400 and losing a kidney (and given what that post said about the inconvenience of the surgery for kidney explantation, I’d say $400 is even a conservative estimate) you’d better donate the former. (FWIW, I have agreed to donate my organs after death—more precisely, it’s opt-out in my country, but I know how to opt out and haven’t done so.)
Oh, so I suppose you have neither $400 nor any redundant organs, then? I was ignoring the hypocrisy of not being impoverished, because not having any significant amount of money has larger long-term effects than not having an extra kidney.
There recently was a post on LW (to which I’ll provide a link as soon as I get behind a ‘proper’ computer rather than a smartphone) making the point that the expected number of lives you save is much higher if you donate $400 than if you donate a kidney, so if you’re indifferent between losing $400 and losing a kidney (and given what that post said about the inconvenience of the surgery for kidney explantation, I’d say $400 is even a conservative estimate) you’d better donate the former. (FWIW, I have agreed to donate my organs after death—more precisely, it’s opt-out in my country, but I know how to opt out and haven’t done so.)
Oh, so I suppose you have neither $400 nor any redundant organs, then? I was ignoring the hypocrisy of not being impoverished, because not having any significant amount of money has larger long-term effects than not having an extra kidney.