RobertLumley comments on Our Phyg Is Not Exclusive Enough - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobertLumley 15 April 2012 01:25:32AM 8 points [-]

It was this thread.

Basically it boiled down to this: I was suggesting that one reason some people might donate to more than one charity is that they're risk averse and want to make sure they're doing some good, instead of trying to help and unluckily choosing an unpredictably bad charity. It was admittedly a pretty pedantic point, but someone apparently didn't like it.

Comment author: wedrifid 15 April 2012 06:51:17AM 3 points [-]

Basically it boiled down to this: I was suggesting that one reason some people might donate to more than one charity is that they're risk averse and want to make sure they're doing some good, instead of trying to help and unluckily choosing an unpredictably bad charity. It was admittedly a pretty pedantic point, but someone apparently didn't like it.

That seems to be something I would agree with, with an explicit acknowledgement that it relies on a combination of risk aversion and non-consequentialist values.

Comment author: RobertLumley 15 April 2012 01:22:50PM 1 point [-]

It didn't really help that I made my point very poorly.