Quantifying moral tradeoffs is doing good better, even when the math is wrong
austinc3301 · x · 2026-11-06
The author continues defending quantified giving: people routinely object to any attempt to transparently quantify moral tradeoffs, yet quantification is one of the most powerful tools for finding the best ways to do good. Whether Dario's specific estimate was good or bad is debatable, but he did the basic thing—earnestly asking and trying to answer the question—which the vast majority of donors still don't do.
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