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Comment author: wedrifid 28 August 2011 03:35:22AM 7 points [-]

How much is karma worth, after all?

No (fungible) US dollars?

You get karma for comments, including comments signalling altruism. If you want to get karma via saying that you have donated then it becomes a task of maximising the efficiency of your PR exposure. The same applies to other signals, costly or otherwise.

Donating to charity is a less efficient way to gain lesswrong karma than googling for rationality quotes even in terms of time taken to make a donation, neglecting the cost of a donation itself.

Comment author: Rain 28 August 2011 10:04:27PM 7 points [-]

Donating to charity is a less efficient way to gain lesswrong karma than googling for rationality quotes even in terms of time taken to make a donation, neglecting the cost of a donation itself.

I earned more than 100 karma from a single rationality quote, and a max of 56 from any single donation comment.