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I wondered for a while how the math would change if you assumed that a number of other agents had the same decision function as you. Even if you individual contribution is small, n rational agents see that charity X is optimal and give money to it might change the utility per dollar significantly.
I haven't worked through the math though.
I'm not sure it's settled how to even do that math.
There is a variety of math that could be done. It is relatively easy to show that certain strategies may not be optimal, which is what I was thinking about.
I wasn't touching how to make optimal decisions, which would very much be in the TDT realm I think.