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Link: The Openness-Equality Trade-Off in Global Redistribution

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2509305 A very interesting (draft of a) paper that discusses trade-offs between immigra

If interventions changing population size are cheap, they may be the best option independent of your population ethics

In this post I'll explain why you might want to assist altruistic interventions that change the size of the world population regardless of h

Distinction between "creating/preventing future lives" and "improving future lives that are already expected to exist"?

I'm writing something (mostly for myself right now) about how if you're somewhat of a utilitarian, a very wide range of population ethics pr

Population ethics in practice

There are many different ideas about how utilitarians should value the number of future people. Unfortunately, it is difficult to take all o

Economics/demographics question: If a child unexpectedly dies, how much does this shrink the next generation?

The answer seems obvious - the next generation will have one fewer person (in expectation) - but it's not that simple, and it's been bugging

A strange implication of critical-level utilitarianism

Suppose you have a population of identical people, each with the same income . Critical-level utilitarianism (CLU) says that you should max

What can total utilitarians learn from empirical estimates of the value of a statistical life?

This post was inspired by Carl Shulman's blog post from last month—if you have time, read that first, since this is basically a response to

How does the value placed on creating new lives versus improving existing ones affect how an effective altruist should act?

I'm not familiar with the terminology used by people who talk about effective giving, so I'll be using a lot of scare quotes and this post w