Your donations if you were an EA acting according to your own values,
I don’t think this question is well formed. Unless you were being altruistic, you’re not an EA. If your own values are altruistic, then “your own values” doesn’t add anything to “EA”
2 How the typical person you know would donate if they were an EA,
The typical person isn’t an EA. Their becoming an EA involves such a massive change it isn’t clear that their pre-EA values would have much effect. Should by being a Sunni or a Shi’ite change what the most effective way of helping people is?
3 How an average-utilitarian EA would donate
Average-utilitarian EAs will want to do crazy things like continually murder unhappy people until only one, superbly happy (and probably sadistic, to be happy in such a scenario) person was left. Total utilitarianism is the default brand of utilitarianism.
I doubt sadistic… a sadist presumably wants other people around to hurt. But certainly atypical, if their utility is consistent with everyone else in the world being dead.
I don’t think this question is well formed. Unless you were being altruistic, you’re not an EA. If your own values are altruistic, then “your own values” doesn’t add anything to “EA”
The typical person isn’t an EA. Their becoming an EA involves such a massive change it isn’t clear that their pre-EA values would have much effect. Should by being a Sunni or a Shi’ite change what the most effective way of helping people is?
Average-utilitarian EAs will want to do crazy things like continually murder unhappy people until only one, superbly happy (and probably sadistic, to be happy in such a scenario) person was left. Total utilitarianism is the default brand of utilitarianism.
I doubt sadistic… a sadist presumably wants other people around to hurt.
But certainly atypical, if their utility is consistent with everyone else in the world being dead.