Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Last Days of the Singularity Challenge - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 February 2010 03:46AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 February 2010 08:44:01PM 7 points [-]

This would make the IRS sad if they found out. You wouldn't like them when they're sad.

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 28 February 2010 09:02:15PM 7 points [-]

Good point. Even better, then: charity trades. I give $10 to your charity and you give $10 to my charity.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 March 2010 12:21:12AM 4 points [-]

Probably a wash if everyone does it, but might give a selective advantage to rationalists if practiced by rationalists only and the practice didn't spread beyond that... which seems unlikely in the long run, but not too impossible in the short run.