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jkaufman comments on Giving: is money better than options? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: jkaufman 05 January 2012 01:54PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 January 2012 12:48:41PM 0 points [-]

First of all, you are correct and I should have reflected that in my post.

Second of all, I suppose I didn't actually find the argument convincing either. If I had, I would have actually donated money to charity in response to being impressed. I CONSIDERED donating money to charity and was very close to doing so, but I decided not to. I doubt I'm explicitly aware of all of the reasons for that decision, but the fact that I recently went below the minimum without fees on my savings account is the first one that came to mind, but I don't know if that's really my true objection.

So including all caveats of which I am currently aware, if someone was in a mental position like mine, and had not recently had any financial trouble, and did not have any other objections, they may have donated.

However, I don't actually like this argument, because it doesn't feel sufficiently inspirational. And while I can think of those caveats NOW, at the time it seemed like I was actually very close to being convinced in a way I don't think that list of that criteria reflects. So I end up liking the connotations of my previous remarks even though the denotations of my current remarks seem more accurate.

Sorry. This is somewhat confusing. I don't really seem to have a good way of discussing ADBOC points even when they are my own points.