You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

army1987 comments on What's the right way to think about how much to give to charity? - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: irrational 24 September 2014 09:42PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (72)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 September 2014 07:55:42AM 5 points [-]

If you give more than 0.7% of your income, you are doing better than most governments around the world, many of which have promised to spend 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid, but do not meet that threshold.

Also, what money goverments do spend on foreign aid is definitely spent in a much much less efficient way than GiveWell's top charities, and probably in certain cases even worse than not giving anything at all.