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benkuhn 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: benkuhn 18 May 2015 12:00:41AM 0 points [-]

What do you mean by "dollar amounts become linear"? I haven't seen a random variable referred to as "linear" before (on its own, without reference to another variable as in "y is linear in x").