http://trilema.com/2020/how-altruism-ruins-human-society/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Mon, 11 May 2026 09:24:48 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2020/how-altruism-ruins-human-society/#comment-155958 Mircea Popescu Fri, 13 Nov 2020 23:09:43 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=97887#comment-155958 That'd only be relevant if usual or at least somewhat common H exceeded the Ri sum. This never happens in practice, a man may drown for lack of a ship, but no man drowned for such a lack of conveyance as all the ships in the world wouldn't come close to sufficing. That'd only be relevant if usual or at least somewhat common H exceeded the Ri sum. This never happens in practice, a man may drown for lack of a ship, but no man drowned for such a lack of conveyance as all the ships in the world wouldn't come close to sufficing.

]]> http://trilema.com/2020/how-altruism-ruins-human-society/#comment-155956 pletzalcoatl Fri, 13 Nov 2020 22:57:22 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=97887#comment-155956 Doesn't your model eventually require that any proffered help be given according to a schedule of divergence of a particular hardship from mean hardshippiness? In which case, donations to insurance policies would be the most sensible route, since the tables already exist? Doesn't your model eventually require that any proffered help be given according to a schedule of divergence of a particular hardship from mean hardshippiness? In which case, donations to insurance policies would be the most sensible route, since the tables already exist?

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