Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
My own experience is the opposite of this. I feel like I would have been a significantly worse person without the influence of EA ideology. https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1725958636529480155
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Garrett
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Did you not want to make the world a better place before being exposed to EA ideology?
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I did, but the whole "you can literally save a human life for the same price as a business class flight ticket" thing was mindblowing and raised its importance in my mind by a lot
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Garrett
@garrett
Totally but that’s not a big ideological shift. That’s just realizing the level of impact you can have. If you never knew that then it doesn’t make you a worse person.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
If I did not realize my potential level of impact on others, I would have invested more into myself instead. In turn, given how human psychology works, I would have acquired much less of an identity around helping others.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I think there is something visceral about seeing a precise estimate of the raw exchange rate between money and saving a specific number of people that I could never have gotten just from vanilla 00s era "you can change the world" rhetoric
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Garrett
@garrett
Obviously that perspective elicits a visceral reaction but it’s reliant on that exchange rate being true for a longer period of time. Putting exact terms around how you can do good in the world certainly helps in that goal. What data are you basing that raw exchange rate off of?
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Vitalik Buterin
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https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness It was $2k in the good old days!
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