Damn, moral self-righteousness must be better than fuckin' heroin, shocking more people aren't out here donating kidneys given that.

Yeah, I'd cap that factor at 1% (and it's probably less) which would mean you'd have to live 100+ years to get more out of it than the recipients.

It's... not undiscovered, they screen you for kidney stuff before they let you donate because there's a negative health impact on kidney function from only having one.

The number of people who altruistically donate kidneys per year in the USA is like 1-200, so the fact that Scott knows multiple EAs who did so (and that the kidney donor people are used to EAs) is pretty high-tier evidence that either there are a LOT more EAs than I thought, or they do it MUCH higher rates than the general population.

Scott alone donating would probably set the rate of altruistic kidney donation at a higher rate among EAs than the general population, at least for this year; there'd have to be around 2M EAs in the USA to match the baseline rate, while the real number is almost certainly significantly lower.