Comments on: Effective Altruism, and building a better QALY https://archive.opentheory.net/2015/06/effective-altruism-and-building-a-better-qaly/ Speculations on the Frontiers of Science and Culture Fri, 27 Nov 2015 21:31:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Google Hedonics | Qualia Computing https://archive.opentheory.net/2015/06/effective-altruism-and-building-a-better-qaly/#comment-69341 Fri, 27 Nov 2015 21:31:16 +0000 https://archive.opentheory.net/?p=1025#comment-69341 […] use of QALYs in utilitarian calculations is a huge improvement upon hand-wavy head-counting. But hedonic tone is not yet in the picture, much less a truly sound way of measuring it, let alone optimizing for it. Google Hedonics would […]

]]> By: MJ https://archive.opentheory.net/2015/06/effective-altruism-and-building-a-better-qaly/#comment-65210 Sat, 22 Aug 2015 20:26:36 +0000 https://archive.opentheory.net/?p=1025#comment-65210 In reply to Romeo Stevens.

I have not! Reading it now, thank you.

]]> By: Romeo Stevens https://archive.opentheory.net/2015/06/effective-altruism-and-building-a-better-qaly/#comment-64852 Sun, 16 Aug 2015 03:57:51 +0000 https://archive.opentheory.net/?p=1025#comment-64852 WRT measuring utility, have you checked out this?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/71x/a_crash_course_in_the_neuroscience_of_human/

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