multifoliaterose comments on Efficient Charity

[multifoliaterose]

Your ordering raises the possibility that your preferences are nontransitive! :-)

[JGWeissman]

I don’t see the nontransitivity, but it does seem to imply:

U(x-risk reduction($x)) - U(Disneyland($x)) < U(Disneyland($x)) - U(personal luxuries($x))

which, while not inconsistent, seems to undervalue x-risk reduction relative to trips to Disneyland for cancer patients.

[komponisto]

You’re right. The penultimate item is too low; it should in fact be second.

All I really wanted to point out was the abundance of items between the first and the last, and the fact that (people donating to save lives instead of buying personal luxuries) is higher than (people donating to save lives instead of donating to provide trips to Disneyland).