MichaelVassar comments on Missed opportunities for doing well by doing good - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 21 July 2010 01:40:06PM 6 points [-]

It seems very plausible to me that the belief that giving to inefficient charities doesn't count as altruism would prevent one from gaining the more efficient fuzzies offered by inefficient charities and cause giving to efficient charities to count as altruism.