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Anonymous asked: Nothing against multiheaded as a person, glad she's getting some help, but from an EA perspective, how does "funding one particular individual's move out of Russia" hold up as an efficient use of funds? I feel like a dick writing that, but a lot of EA writing is along the lines of "deworming has a much higher DALYs-to-Dollars ratio than helping a fellow church congregant avoid defaulting on her mortgage." Should I just see helping friends like multiheaded as being more like personal consumption?

ozymandias271:

I was going to write up a long explanation of this but fortunately someone already did and instead I will merely remark on the fact that I never get these anons when I say that I spent six hundred dollars on wedding cake.

Also, Russia is a very unhealthy place for some kinds of particular individuals. The ALYs of getting relocated are much higher than those of avoiding defaulting. While EA is definitely very efficient in aggregate, even economists pick up hundred dollar bills lying on the street, and rare opportunities can be significantly more efficient than common ones. In this specific case I find it utterly plausible that helping multiheaded wouldn’t be an order of magnitude less efficient from an impersonal perspective than the best interventions (I wouldn’t have been willing to include that part otherwise). I have insider information, trust me.

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32. tartapplesauce said: Is it nice cake? What kind? Traditional style fruit with heavy icing or lighter and tastier?
33. teethreetee said: Also there’s the fact that (afaik) multi is an EA and bringing her over to not!Russia would substantially increase the amount of money going to EA causes, even if those costs funge against immediate EA spending.
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