[Article] “Counterfactuals and how they change our view of what does good” by Benjamin Todd

Imagine you're at the scene of an accident and you see an injured person. In your enthusiasm to help, you push the paramedics out of the way and perform CPR on the injured person yourself. You're successful and bring them back to consciousness, but because you're less well-trained than the paramedics, you cause permanent damage to the person's spine. If you had let the paramedics perform CPR instead, the injured person would have made a full recovery.

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First published:
September 27th, 2021

Source:
https://80000hours.org/articles/counterfactuals

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