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Larry Temkin (pt 1): Moral Philosophy, transitivity, critiques of effective altruism, international aid, pluralism

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What's Behind Dorb?

i find the life of 60 mosquito pigts a month. I'd rather have that than two years most excruciaten torture humanly imaginable. Human beings say, i don't care how long i live, one extra mosquito, but a month, right? And here, again, it's virtually unanimous. Ask them round the world. Everybody says the two years and 15 miskatebites is better than the four years of portur,. almost as bad and 15 scatbites. We justgus simplified two to four when it comes to torture; we all greee more than four when it come to pain. Then instead of eight years of really, really,

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