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Stabilizer comments on Useful Concepts Repository - Less Wrong Discussion

32 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 10 June 2013 06:12AM

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Comment author: Stabilizer 11 June 2013 12:13:35AM 7 points [-]

Robin Hanson's marginal charity has been quite useful for me.

Especially, when I use it for doing marginal charity towards myself. Example: I'm eating a slice of cake. The difference in utility for me between eating 3/4ths of it and all of it is small. So if I leave a 1/4th of it for future-me, the difference in utility for future-me is much larger since it is the difference between having no cake and having some cake.