Thread about why I’m not personally motivated to try to figure out whether it’s worth it in terms of QALYs to keep everyone home. It’s not because I think you can’t trade off human life. We do that all the time, even though it’s socially fraught to look directly at it.
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I think signing petitions and calling congress people has small but nonzero effect? And writing good essays with models that hold up can change the conversation in ways that can trickle up to decision makers. Seems very hard to quantify and I’m interested in models here.
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I think essays do ever influence policy. I'm actually trying to influence some stuff with my writing, but ideally at a lower and more technical level (medical standard-of-care & mobilization) than elected officials.
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