wedrifid comments on Efficient Charity - Less Wrong

31 Post author: multifoliaterose 04 December 2010 10:27AM

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Comment author: multifoliaterose 05 December 2010 03:59:44AM 1 point [-]

I feel like we're engaged in a semantic dispute and/or hairsplitting which has proceeded beyond the point of diminishing returns at least for me personally. Though I've read everything you've said, I don't have a clear intuitive sense for where you're coming from and why this topic is important to you. If you feel that you have a substantive point to make on this subject maybe you can make a discussion board post detailing your position.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 December 2010 04:22:30AM *  0 points [-]

Though I've read everything you've said, I don't have a clear intuitive sense for where you're coming from and why this topic is important to you.

Search 'Amanda Knox' on the site. Not necessarily just the top level posts on the subject by Kompo but the other times 'rational charity' subjects have come up.

Comment author: komponisto 06 December 2010 07:23:39AM 0 points [-]

What is that supposed to mean?

If you're referring to the discussion I think you are, I'll remind you once again that someone else made the first mention.

This strikes me as something of a cheap shot.

(So, then, by the way, was I wrong here after all? Do you simply not approve of fuzzy-seeking, despite what you said in that thread?)

Comment author: wedrifid 06 December 2010 08:17:06AM *  1 point [-]

I don't think your position is anything to be ashamed of, or to defend. Multi wasn't sure where you were coming from and those are places where you have expressed your position. It isn't offensive unless what you have said previously regarding charity is something to be ashamed of.

So, then, by the way, was I wrong here after all? Do you simply not approve of fuzzy-seeking, despite what you said in that thread?

I don't know where those questions came from. But no to both.

Comment author: komponisto 06 December 2010 02:06:45PM *  0 points [-]

I don't think your position is anything to be ashamed of, or to defend...those are places where you have expressed your position

Well, thanks for that clarification. I hope I can be forgiven for interpreting your comment as an apparent repetition of the rather unpleasant-sounding accusation expressed in the last paragraph here, combined with a suggestion that I wasn't being transparent about what was motivating my remarks here.

I don't know where those questions came from

I had intended to ask them in the other sub-thread, where you expressed contempt for Make-A-Wish donors, but was too lazy to dig up the old discussion (not easily found by the keywords you suggest, incidentally) until provoked here.