lmm comments on Open Thread, November 15-22, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Still doesn't explain people paying less to save 20000 birds than to save 2000.
Saving 10 times more birds would make me 10 times more happy. Therefore, I would make a bigger celebration afterwards. But the celebration also comes from my limited budget, so there would be less money left to contribute to saving the birds.
(End of rationalization exercise.)
I never claimed that no effective demonstrations of scope insensitivity exist.