@shel @cocoron also like??? the difference you make isnt measured in the number of dollars you give to random charities???

@chr @cocoron yeah esp. cuz the money has strings attached that limit the ability ofthose charities to do shit

@shel @chr @cocoron And this just shows that we don't value the efforts of teachers as much as we value money.

@chr @shel @cocoron yea i was gonna be like

somebody still has to teach or nobody gets taught, yo

@shel

You might find https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ interesting!

@EmpressZo this is just a non-profit development platform. there isn't anything too special about this. it's still just the non-profit complex

@shel I put the link there as a slightly tongue-in-cheek response to "people won't donate 50%" (in the form of, "10%, however", to say that people are willing to donate more than one might expect), which was perhaps oblique.

@EmpressZo people do donate 10% a lot since that's a common eligious commandment but when you're a millionaire you could donate 90% and be well off

@shel I don't think of charitable interventions with different motivations and approaches as part of a singular nonprofit complex. In particular, most nonprofits don't do substantial good in terms of 'lives saved per dollar donated'. On the other hand, effective altruism uses evidence about the impact of charities to donate where it matters most.

If you're interested, or otherwise want to determine whether it's part of a nonprofit complex, I'd recommend https://www.givewell.org/

@cocoron neither true, nor possible. and repugnant.

@Shufei @cocoron
Ugh it's that "effective altruism" stuff, isn't it?
"Hey idealistic kids, please don't refuse to work for arseholes and their damaging objectives. You can take the money and outsource giving a fuck to someone else. See? We have graphs and everything! Be rational! You wouldn't want to be emotional would you? What are you, a girl?"

@gcupc @cocoron
Also apparently one of the effectively altruistic things you can do is give AI researchers your money on the off chance that the Singularity cult isn't full of shit.
http://effective-altruism.com/ea/17s/what_should_the_average_ea_do_about_ai_alignment/
(The more I search for links about this the funnier / wronger it gets.)