Kindly comments on 2012 Winter Fundraiser for the Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 06 December 2012 10:41PM

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Comment author: Kindly 08 December 2012 11:53:06PM 5 points [-]

Also, sometimes people actually will say "No, I was kidding" if you ask them.

Or "Oops, I accidentally typed an extra zero. Twice."

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 09 December 2012 07:40:20AM 0 points [-]

That is unlikely owing to the placement of the commas.

Comment author: Kindly 09 December 2012 03:23:17PM 2 points [-]

No, that just makes it worse, because 20,00$ could be referring to donating 20 dollars.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 09 December 2012 09:28:03PM *  2 points [-]

Ah, right. I had forgotten that some people use commas where I would expect periods. Adding an extra zero twice is still somewhat unlikely, though. My current hypotheses about the distribution of LW users make it more plausible that the tail of high income can afford fairly large donations.