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

10 Post author: multifoliaterose 21 July 2010 07:45AM

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Comment author: b1shop 22 July 2010 01:32:53AM 1 point [-]

You may be anchoring based on the total amount of money needed to save everybody who needs to be saved in the developing world or something like that, and consequently forgetting that there are real people who are affected by donations.

You seem mighty quick to accuse me of bias. A thousand dollars is a lot higher than I imagined the number to be. Surely, you can be charitable enough for me to express that simple fact without declaring me an anchor-er.

Comment author: WrongBot 22 July 2010 01:54:37AM 7 points [-]

I feel obliged to point out that you are an anchor-er, insomuch as that you are human. You may not be falling prey to that particular bias in this particular instance, but the bias is still present in the topology of your brain.

Comment author: b1shop 22 July 2010 02:19:41AM 6 points [-]

Point well taken.