kocykl 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: [deleted] 24 June 2013 10:48:12AM *  0 points [-]

How would you know there isn't any realistic way to impact them using your resources? Donation to a think-tank seems one possible option.

Comment author: gjm 24 June 2013 05:51:41PM 0 points [-]

Probably hard to know with much confidence. So I suppose the question might be (in so far as this makes sense) objectively unimportant but subjectively important,