niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

@rune

I will also give away some of my income, because I believe these things! It'll be ~10%, since i don't have 11 bio. (or 125 bio. dollars)

@rune

6. Neither is ~125 bio., although the case is less clear here—but the Giving Pledge doesn't say anything about how that money is supposed to be used, and indeed I believe it's going to be used for mostly stupid stuff. I don't consider the Giving Pledge to be an effective altruist institution, because the lack of constraints on effectiveness.

@rune (And not just use it for money laundering).

4. Giving away all your money immediately is *not* the optimal way to make the world better. It would be pretty stupid to do that.

5. 11 billion dollars is *not* sufficient to solve even one global problem. And there are many of those: global poverty, climate change, factory farming, global catastrophic biorisk…

@rune
Here's some things I believe:

1. If you're in the top 5% of income worldwide (which would correspond to ~200k DKK/year) my ethics tells me that you have a pretty strong duty to give some of your income to the less fortunate. This duty rises with higher levels of wealth.

2. EA does usually *not* make this demand, and everyone who claims otherwise is kindly asked to provide strong evidence.

3. The people who have pledged to give away their fortunes will indeed do so.

@rune

Hello there! (The Effective Altriusm Defender has logged on).

Could I know which video this is?

A priori this seems unlikely, I'd expect them to ask to donate to the organisations they support.

But then again, maybe it'd be good to think on the object level about what concrete things they are asking to be supported.

@theresnotime
Strong limit gender
Inaccessible gender
gender#
almost ineffable, ineffable, n-ineffable, totally ineffable gender
n-superstrong (n≥2), n-almost huge, n-super almost huge, n-huge, n-superhuge gender