PhilGoetz comments on Optimizing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altruism Chip Jar - Less Wrong

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Comment author: LucasSloan 02 January 2011 05:41:12AM 1 point [-]

My father spent some time creating such an app, but I don't think it is useful for the purpose of diverting sudden, altruistic impulses toward high impact charities, largely because it requires you to manually input your credit card/paypal info each time you try a donation, which is enough effort to reintroduce the original trivial inconvenience. If anyone knows how to fix that sort of problem, I could get the code for you.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 04 January 2011 02:17:16AM 2 points [-]

I don't have to input my financial info when I use paypal - I just log in with my username and password, which can be cached for those who don't like even that inconvenience; and click on "Pay now".