Personal Impact Measure
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A Personal Impact Measure is a personal measure designed to quantify the impact of an Individual's Actions.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Short-Term Personal Impact to being a Long-Term Personal Impact.
- It can be referenced by a Consequentialist Utility Function.
- It can be used to evaluate the Effectiveness of an individual's efforts towards achieving a Goal.
- It can be an Externally Derived Personal Impact Measure, which focuses on areas like Social Impact, Environmental Impact, or Economic Impact.
- It can be used for Personal Assessment, including methods like Self-Assessment or External Personal Valuation.
- It can be aggregated to formulate a Social Group Impact Measure that quantifies the collective impact of a Social Group.
- Example(s):
- Carbon Footprint Reduction, quantifies an individual's impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
- Children Saved, quantifies the number of saved children.
- Superintelligence Ignition-Disaster Avoidance, quantifies the reduction in risk related to the creation and management of artificial superintelligence.
- Personal Impact on Universe Beauty Measure (universe a more beautiful place).
- Progeny Count, quantifies the number of progeny.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Personal Output Measure, which could include metrics like Philanthropic Contributions or the number of Students Impacted, but doesn't necessarily gauge impact.
- Organizational Impact Measure, focuses on the collective impact of an organization, not individual contributions.
- Hedonic Measure, quantifies only personal pleasure or happiness, not broader impact.
- ...
- See: Human Measure, Personal Knowledge-Capture, Utilitarianism, Social Responsibility, Impact Assessment.