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Dagon comments on Open thread, Mar. 14 - Mar. 20, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dagon 15 March 2016 06:30:20PM 0 points [-]

"charity" is a political term that makes measuring this very difficult. If you count donations to private-charity art museums and to activism/signaling groups rather than only looking at poverty impact, you'll get results that don't really tell you much about useful donations.