nshepperd 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: nshepperd 05 February 2011 11:51:55AM -1 points [-]

The entire resources of the world are somewhat large compared to a single person's donation. I expect the argument wouldn't apply in that situation (but you need TDT-like reasoning to realize that's relevant, or for the donations to be spread in time so each person can condition on what donations all previous people made.)