ciphergoth comments on The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Kevin 10 February 2010 03:15AM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 10 February 2010 02:05:35PM 5 points [-]

In the past, you've pointed out that it can never be more efficient to split a small donation between two charities than to give all to the best bet, even if you are uncertain which is best. So I take it the advantage of lots of charities here is a political one, that we can include some sops to fuzzy-purchasing, lots of GiveWell-ish charities whose efficiency we can calculate, and perhaps one or two x-risk charities which we consider to be very efficient but which most people aren't sold on?

Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 10 February 2010 02:32:19PM 8 points [-]

it can never be more efficient to split a small donation between two charities than to give all to the best bet

We're not talking about a small donation.

Comment author: ciphergoth 10 February 2010 02:42:23PM 1 point [-]

True :-) But is it really so much that in order not to reach diminishing returns on an individual charity, it has to be split 100 ways? Even splitting it five ways would seem to be enough to offset that effect.

Unless one of the charities is SingInst.