Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Giving Now Currently Seems to Beat Giving Later - Less Wrong

1 Post author: peter_hurford 19 June 2013 06:40PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2013 08:33:14PM 0 points [-]

If your goal in donating now is to recruit more people to donate later, you probably don't have to donate nearly as much as if your goal was to actually maximize the other impacts of your donated money. So you can donate a little now, use that to recruit people to donate later, and make most of your donations later.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 June 2013 10:58:31PM 3 points [-]

Isn't this true only if there are sharply diminishing returns on recruitment?