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Re Luna amendment, there was an additional Luna amendment that was trying to remove the SOB provision that died (even though the pesticide one went through).  That was what I was referring to.  https://www.nationalhogfarmer.com/farming-business-management/amendment-to-strike-down-save-our-bacon-act-rejected  

You're right about 2, fixed.  I didn't see the comment pointing this out as I don't check comments on posts more than a day after posting (otherwise I'd have way too many to check as I get a lot of comments).  

Re 3, Didn’t mean to use the word PAC in the comment, was an error (not sure if I was confused at time or just a typo.). But the ampa themselves—not the PAC—are the things the donation link was to, and they’re just defeating sob.  Other stuff the PAC is doing is also to defeat SOB (Craig is a big opponent of it).

Yeah that's basically it.  Money they get is ONLY spent on defeating this bill. 

Yes it was stripped from the earliest senate version but might be added back. 

Post Anthropic funding we'll probably have about 50 billion dollars a year.  Now, that's not enough to sponsor every conceivable project that will make the world better, but it is enough to sponsor the main portfolio of the highest-impact projects.  

Even if future people matter .001% as much as present people, the argument for SL goes through.  

Also, it just seems bizarre that the moral importance of a person would depend on when in time they exist.  If someone time-traveled back from the future to the present, would it start being 100x worse for them to stub their toe? 

I'm not sure I quite get what you're saying.  The point is just that if actions have positive EV and impact on the order of 10^50 lives potentially, that is very likely to swamp other positive actions.  

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