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ChristianKl comments on “Be A Superdonor!”: Promoting Effective Altruism by Appealing to the Heart - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 09 November 2015 06:20PM

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Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 10 November 2015 11:55:24PM *  2 points [-]

I hear your concern about bringing more emotionally-oriented people into leadership positions. However, I am not at all convinced by the point of them not caring about being effective. The whole point I was making above is to appeal to people's emotions to cause them to care about effectiveness.

The more emotionally-oriented people will not be good at determining effectiveness. But if we can get them to care about effectiveness, not cute puppies, that's where we can make a huge difference in their spending decisions. They would be highly unlikely to become leaders within EA, but their donations can then be powerfully shaped by EA recommendations

Comment author: ChristianKl 11 November 2015 12:19:35PM 2 points [-]

When it comes to straight money donations their origin doesn't matter. When it comes to people who actually want to spend time being involved "in the community" their background matters.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 19 November 2015 05:13:00AM 0 points [-]

Yes, they do. Strait money donations exert evolutionary pressure on charities.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 11 November 2015 06:09:51PM 0 points [-]

Yup, agreed.