shokwave comments on Efficient Charity - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: shokwave 06 December 2010 02:53:34PM *  1 point [-]

Löb's Theorem! Trust GiveWell because you evaluate it as trustworthy; not because it has evaluated itself!

That reduces self-evaluation to signalling. I suppose you could factor "they costly signal transparency" into your evaluation of GiveWell.

edit: Having read about their disciplinary action, I would like to revise my previous statement to "they extremely costly signal transparency"