denisbider 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: denisbider 11 February 2010 03:47:30PM *  -2 points [-]

Charity is generally harmful. The problem of charity is not how to raise money; everyone likes to purchase good feelings by contributing to charity. The problem is how to spend it so it actually helps, rather than harms.

Chances are, you're going to be spending your money more wisely if it doesn't fall from the sky.

If this is money for AI, I don't see how money is even the bottleneck at this point.

Comment author: thomblake 11 February 2010 03:54:09PM 2 points [-]

I don't see how money is even the bottleneck at this point.

Money is fungible. If anything is the bottleneck, then money is the bottleneck, until you physically run out of resources.