whpearson comments on On Charities and Linear Utility - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Anatoly_Vorobey 04 February 2011 02:13PM

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Comment author: whpearson 04 February 2011 08:54:30PM 2 points [-]

With perfect information. and infinity flexible charities (that could borrow off future giving if they weren't optimal that time period), then yep.

I'd agree it is irrelevant to the real world because most people aren't following the "giving everything to one charity" strategy. If everyone followed givewell then things might get hairy for charities as they became and lost being flavour of the time period.