Squark comments on On not diversifying charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Squark 15 March 2014 11:32:30AM 0 points [-]

This is already addressed in the post (a late addition maybe?)

Comment author: ThrustVectoring 15 March 2014 01:49:56PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, it wasn't there when I posted the above. The "donate to the top charity on GiveWell" plan is a very good example of what I was talking about.

Comment author: Squark 15 March 2014 02:42:22PM 1 point [-]

This plan can work if GiveWell adjust their top charity as a function of incoming donations sufficiently fast. For example, if GiveWell have precomputed the marginal utility per dollar of each donation as a function of its budget and they have access to a continuously updated budget figure for each charity, they can create an automatically updated "top charities" page.