kalium comments on Some reservations about Singer's child-in-the-pond argument - Less Wrong

21 Post author: JonahSinick 19 June 2013 11:54PM

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Comment author: JonahSinick 21 June 2013 03:47:14AM *  1 point [-]

I agree with these points, and with Holden's view that Singer's child-in-a-pond argument is generally underappreciated rather than overappreciated.

The part that I was highlighting as misleading is the implicitly claimed effect size. People who aspire to do the most good may be connotatively misled by into thinking that alleviating global poverty is a more promising target for optimal philanthropy than it actually is.