Eliezer Kowski poses a question about the trade-off between preventing hiccups and preventing a shark attack
If hiccups are assigned negative value, then a large number of hiccups could outweigh a single shark attack
The argument suggests that there must be a number of hiccups that could be even worse than a shark attack
However, the speaker disagrees with this argument and states that there is no such number
The reason for this disagreement is not provided in the passage
Neuroscientist Erik Hoel talks about why he is not an "effective altruist" with EconTalk host, Russ Roberts. Hoel argues that the utilitarianism that underlies effective altruism--a movement co-founded by Will MacAskill and Peter Singer--is a poison that inevitably leads to repugnant conclusions and thereby weakens the case for the strongest claims made by effective altruists.
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