lukeprog comments on Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity - Less Wrong

44 Post author: wdmacaskill 15 November 2012 08:34PM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 10 November 2012 09:05:49PM 13 points [-]

because rationality is partly about the ability to make the right decision given a relatively small amount of data.

And sensibly collecting obtainable data that could make a big difference for a decision. Making correct decisions with less data is harder, and so more taxing of epistemic rationality, but that difficulty means it's often instrumentally rational to avoid such difficulty.

Comment author: lukeprog 11 November 2012 11:34:25AM 1 point [-]

Cannot upvote this enough. Neglected Virtue of Scholarship and all that.