gwern comments on Balancing Costs to Ourselves with Benefits to Others - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 30 June 2012 05:26:21PM 3 points [-]

Unless that someone was spending as much or more on charity or similar extenuating factors, it's worth noting that

I came to the conclusion that I effectively don't care about people in distant countries dying of things that won't impact me.

applies even moreso to them!