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A logic which applies only to people who are interested in getting a warm glow and not for people interested in helping. Diversifying charitable investments maximizes your chance of getting at least some warm glow from "having helped". It does not help people as best they can be helped.
I'm beginning to think that LW needs some better mechanism for dealing with the phenomenon of commenters who are polite, repetitive, immune to all correction, and consistently wrong about everything. I know people don't like it when I say this sort of thing, but seriously, people like that can lower the perceived quality of a whole website.
online communities, being largely by and for geeks, dislike overt exclusionary tactics because it brings up painful associations. I think well established communities often have more to gain from elitism than they stand to lose.
These two statements are contradictory. Did you swap "gain" and "lose" in the second statement?
I think he meant in the second sentence that observation about what communities actually would benefit from. The first sentence is an observation of what preferences people have due to cultural issues. In this case, he is implying that general preferences don't fit what is actually optimal.