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On 2016-03-20 19:47, spike wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…<span
style="color:black">or even just to give a bit each
month for world hunger, etc</span>…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Anders
Sandberg is a man I hope will chime in on that
comment. He is active in the Effective Altruism
movement, which I find intriguing. You don’t even
need to be rich to contribute to that. From what I
can tell from reading their lit, a lot of it is smart
tech-oriented people coming up with mathematical
functions to figure out how to make each dollar given
to world hunger do the most good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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has to be done with a brain as well as with a heart.</span></p>
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Exactly. Effective altruism is very much based on a consequentialist
approach: it is better if the results of your donation are better. <br>
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In some domains we can measure the performance (quality adjusted
life years per dollar) and compare, in other domains we merely have
dominance/comparision arguments to get priorities roughly right. FHI
is working on thinking about the really uncertain domains where we
do not even know how to compare things, like existential risk. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.givewell.org/">http://www.givewell.org/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/">https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/</a><br>
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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