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gwern comments on Is Politics the Mindkiller? An Inconclusive Test - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 29 July 2012 04:59:01PM 6 points [-]

There has to be some factor where money sent to SIAI stops being worth more than money sent to Africans, no? If you don't like a 0-10x range, what is your interval?

Comment author: [deleted] 30 July 2012 07:38:01AM 1 point [-]

I don't know, but I think it's unlikely a priori to be within an order of magnitude of the actual present-day effectiveness of the AMF. So I thought it was more likely that there was another reason for pointing that out, and indeed CarlShulman confirmed that.

Comment author: CarlShulman 16 June 2013 09:28:17PM *  0 points [-]

Both reasons were present in my mind.