{"items": [{"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/100936518160252317727", "anchor": "gp-1342190008875", "service": "gp", "text": "The first two GiveWell links are broken -- I think you want the lowercase acronyms in the URI.", "timestamp": 1342190008}, {"author": "Kleber", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114937925666302803969", "anchor": "gp-1342193303718", "service": "gp", "text": "Even if you're willing to assume that your objective function is the same as GiveWell's -- more plausibly true for SmartGiving readers than for people at large, I suppose -- you seem to be working in a model where people have some determined amount of money to donate, and are trying to decide what to do with it.\n
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\nThat's contrary to my expectation of human nature. \u00a0You're writing off touching stories and emotional appeals, but surely these are targeted at moving\u00a0people to give more total money than they would have otherwise.", "timestamp": 1342193303}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1342195741889", "service": "gp", "text": "@Alex\n\u00a0fixed; thanks!", "timestamp": 1342195741}, {"author": "peterhurford", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/smartgiving/comments/whzfm#c5dkb8u", "anchor": "r-c5dkb8u", "service": "r", "text": "\n
Even if we work as hard as we can to eradicate them, some people will senselessly die of malaria and other neglected tropical diseases.\n\n\n
Who are we eradicating now? o.O\n", "timestamp": 1342201879}, {"author": "Julia", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114588710186521489410", "anchor": "gp-1342446369470", "service": "gp", "text": "@Kleber\n\u00a0Except that giving $1000 to a random charity does less good than giving $100 to the best charities. \u00a0So, assuming people are not going to increase their giving 1000x or similar based on a heart-pulling photo, it really is better to focus on effective charities.\n
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\nOf course, I do still give to charities that I know are inefficient but that I feel a personal connection to. \u00a0But it comes out of my personal budget, not my charity budget.", "timestamp": 1342446369}, {"author": "Kleber", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114937925666302803969", "anchor": "gp-1342447399492", "service": "gp", "text": "Again, I'm quite willing to believe that the SmartGiving audience is atypical here. \u00a0But without any evidence on either side, my model is that for most people who see such a charity appeal, the trade-off is between donating money to the heart-string-pulling cause, and not donating that money at all.", "timestamp": 1342447399}]}