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ChristianKl comments on The Charity Impact Calculator - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 26 January 2016 05:01AM

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Comment author: WhyAsk 27 January 2016 10:35:52PM 1 point [-]

She didn't provide her reasoning and I was not able to pull up this particular answer to her readers from the Web.

I guess she wants to remove the middleman costs & admin costs from your "donation." And you get direct feedback on "the fruits of your labor". There might also be psych benefits in that you can see your troubles might not be so bad in the big picture view of things.

For the class of people who think their troubles are better than anyone's (e.g., the "inverse pride" of paranoids) I guess I recommend the monetary contribution route.

Am I putting too much stock in Marilyn's high IQ and that women are biologically superior in any case?

Comment author: ChristianKl 28 January 2016 09:25:16PM 2 points [-]

Am I putting too much stock in Marilyn's high IQ and that women are biologically superior in any case?

In general Argument by Authority is one of those logical fallacies. There are valid ways of citing authorities but on LW, simply saying that an high IQ person holds a certain opinion is no convincing argument.