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gjm comments on LW survey: Effective Altruists and donations - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: gwern 14 May 2015 12:44AM

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Comment author: gjm 16 May 2015 08:24:01PM 0 points [-]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

There are two entirely separate questions. (1) Are EAs mostly hypocrites? (2) Does EA lead to more (and more effective) charitable donations? It's perfectly reasonable to care more about #2, but it seems fairly clear that the original accusation was about #1.