= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
pjeby comments on Public Choice and the Altruist's Burden - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (80)
Why would I want to signal wealth to anybody?
What are you talking about? In some of the internet marketer circles I hang out in, it's almost gauche to not be involved in some sort of charitable endeavor.
They are not particularly concerned about efficiency, true, but surely you can find some social circle that agrees with you. Hang out with GiveWell staff, if you must. ;-)
IOW, your language both in the post and this comment continue to strike me as victim-thinking. It's not like we're all forced to interact with exactly one social circle.
Why the bizarre absolute? People don't have perfect freedom choosing whom to interact with, and to the extent that they don't, Roko's thesis holds.
But we have near-perfect freedom choosing whom not to interact with, and to choose our environment such that we either aren't dependent upon others' opinions of our status, or such that we are only interacting with those who have favorable perceptions of it.
In marketing terminology, this is called, "finding your niche". ;-)
I emphatically agree. My strategy of choice is signaling that I'm an exciting person (by trying to actually be an exciting person), and I can't imagine why charity would interfere with that.