Kevin comments on Singularity Institute featured on Philanthroper - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Giles 01 April 2011 12:43:20PM 3 points [-]

"A group of Singularity Institute donors has stepped forward to match all donations given through Philanthroper today"

Does this make sense? How do we know they wouldn't have given that money anyway?

Comment author: Kevin 01 April 2011 06:10:39PM 3 points [-]

I'm one of the matchers, and I can promise you that I wouldn't have given that money anyways!

This is generally a good question though; for bigger matching fundraising drives I think that more often or not the money is precommitted.

Comment author: r_claypool 02 April 2011 02:25:41PM 2 points [-]

Donations reopened for the weekend, so I just made you one dollar poorer. Thanks for matching!