GuySrinivasan 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: Qiaochu_Yuan 08 December 2012 08:45:02AM 3 points [-]

Do we get some kind of reasonable guarantee that there won't in the future be an even better matching offer (say a tripling of our impact), or is the idea here that the value of an SIAI donation is heavily time discounted?

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 10 December 2012 01:03:38AM 0 points [-]

I seem to recall reading a study that concluded that the multiplier on the match (above 0.5x) doesn't change the increase in donations much. Cursory searching didn't refind it though.