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Richard Y Chappell
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Richard Y Chappell writes Good Thoughts, a personal blog at goodthoughts.blog about philosophy and economics. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Richard Y Chappell's blog for arguments about quantifying welfare under high uncertainty, such as in the context of shrimp welfare giving, and for a write-up on Google mosquitoes.
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Consequentialist moral philosophy and analysis.
What Hacker News says?
Seems possible in principle. Experiences can cause one to feel more or less pain--what's wrong with quantifying it? Sure it will be a bit handwavy and vague, but the alternative of doing no comparisons and just going based on vibes is worse https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/refusing-to-quantify-is-refu... . But as I argue, given high uncertainty, you don't need any fine grained estimates to think giving to shrimp welf…
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on “The shrimp welfare project”Submitted Home Education Resources for Gifted Kids as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRelevant write up about this: https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/google-mosquitoes Google Mosquitoes - Debugging Florida
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on “Debug Project”Submitted The Train to Crazy Town as a story · 1 points
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