My three cents in response to CosmicSkeptic’s “Should you sell all your possessions?” video, talking about altruism and our moral obligations towards others.
Watch the video for my full thoughts, but a quick summary follows!
First, the cost that CosmicSkeptic names to save a life is different in reality, considerably changing the nature of the thought experiment.
Second, CosmicSkeptic’s defense of the demandingness objection is, in my opinion, insufficiently confident and I took this opportunity to elaborate with my take on it, as well as provide justification for why it’s such a solid objection.
Third, I bring what I hope is a novel perspective on things, by crossing the streams with AI safety research a little and talking about maximizers and satisficers and the dangers thereof.
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