John_Maxwell_IV comments on Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 03 August 2012 07:03:01PM 5 points [-]

I would guess that these disagreements, particularly (a) and (c), come down to relatively deep worldview differences (related to the debate over "Pascal's Mugging") that I will probably write more about in the future.

How does Givewell plan to deal with the possibility that people who come to Givewell looking for charity advice may have a variety of worldviews that impact their thinking on this?