shokwave comments on Efficient Charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 04 December 2010 02:32:54PM 7 points [-]

A hypothetical charity running programs like VillageReach's but which embezzled 95% of its budget at the cost of correspondingly greatly reduced the cost-effectiveness would still be doing far more good per dollar than the Make-A-Wish Foundation or the least effective developing world charities do.

This is a good sentence (and would make a fine conclusion - I think generalised conclusions don't play on availability bias nearly enough) but there's a bit of a problem in the middle there.

Also: you have caused me to update my beliefs about how to evaluate charities, and also you have caused me to desire to donate more and more often.

Comment author: multifoliaterose 04 December 2010 05:10:57PM *  2 points [-]

This is a good sentence (and would make a fine conclusion - I think generalised conclusions don't play on availability bias nearly enough) but there's a bit of a problem in the middle there.

Thanks for the catch. [Edit: Fixed]

Also: you have caused me to update my beliefs about how to evaluate charities, and also you have caused me to desire to donate more and more often.

Interesting; good to know.

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