Squark comments on On not diversifying charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Squark 14 March 2014 07:07:02PM 0 points [-]

Diversifying donations is not rational as long as the marginal utility per dollar generated by a charity is affected negligibly by the the small sum you are donating. This assumption seems correct for a large class of utility functions under realistic conditions.