Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 04 August 2013 05:43:25AM 15 points [-]

And anyone that’s been involved in philanthropy eventually comes to that point. When you try to help, you try to give things, you start to have the consequences. There’s an author Bob Lupton, who really nails it when he says that when he gave something the first time, there was gratitude; and when he gave something a second time to that same community, there was anticipation; the third time, there was expectation; the fourth time, there was entitlement; and the fifth time, there was dependency. That is what we’ve all experienced when we’ve wanted to do good. Something changes the more we just give hand-out after hand-out. Something that is designed to be a help actually causes harm.

Peter Greer

Comment author: FiftyTwo 14 August 2013 09:09:53PM 1 point [-]

The other way to look at that is the other agent doing basic induction.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 August 2013 01:05:47AM 2 points [-]

It is. That doesn't mean the results are good.