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16 Post author: multifoliaterose 21 August 2010 01:01PM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 21 August 2010 07:02:07PM *  2 points [-]

The usual consequentialist case for charity to reduce risks of nuclear war or catastrophic global warming feedbacks does rely on tiny probabilities of donations making a difference. Likwise for voting and for many kinds of scientific and medical research charity.

Edit: not as tiny as in Lark's comment, although the numbers there are incredibly low.

Comment author: cousin_it 21 August 2010 07:05:46PM *  0 points [-]

That's a very different value of "tiny" than the one in Larks's comment.