sark comments on Rationality quotes: August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sark 20 December 2010 03:57:57PM 2 points [-]

The fact that you don't want to give money to a charity does not mean you need to find out whether the charity is a fraud or not.

Just an observation of how those most motivated to figure out the effectiveness of a charity are those who don't want to donate. But of course, this only applies to seeking out evidence of non-effectiveness. Charities don't usually think of other charities as competition. Also, most of the time, most just rationalize a reason for non-effectiveness.