I’m worried by the amount of psychological trickery you have to do in order to make a donation. If you thought that making a large donation to SIAI was the right thing to do, why do you need to trick yourself?
Maybe it’s a sign of my very weak understanding of human psychology and introspection (the kind of things I came to Less Wrong to learn), but this still is intuitively raising alarm bells to me.
But still, I’m glad you made a donation, even if you didn’t donate with the mindset that I like. You still deserve some glowy feelings …even if I don’t think charity normatively should be about glowy feelings. I’m reminded of “Purchase Fuzzies and Uitlons Separately” here.
I’m worried by the amount of psychological trickery you have to do in order to make a donation. If you thought that making a large donation to SIAI was the right thing to do, why do you need to trick yourself?
Maybe it’s a sign of my very weak understanding of human psychology and introspection (the kind of things I came to Less Wrong to learn), but this still is intuitively raising alarm bells to me.
But still, I’m glad you made a donation, even if you didn’t donate with the mindset that I like. You still deserve some glowy feelings …even if I don’t think charity normatively should be about glowy feelings. I’m reminded of “Purchase Fuzzies and Uitlons Separately” here.