Interesting; since as far as I can tell, Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison use definition #2 in the now-famous Atlantic article: “In an era where funding for good projects can be hard to come by, or is even endangered, we must affirmatively make the case for the study of how to improve human well-being.”
Maybe PS adopted definition #1 instead to avoid seeming redundant compared to EA?
Interesting; since as far as I can tell, Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison use definition #2 in the now-famous Atlantic article: “In an era where funding for good projects can be hard to come by, or is even endangered, we must affirmatively make the case for the study of how to improve human well-being.”
Maybe PS adopted definition #1 instead to avoid seeming redundant compared to EA?
yes but that was done with the assumption that the best way is to increase productivity growth