The solution I’ve found to utilitarian “donation woes” is to cognitive dissonance my way through not actually changing my behavior at all. Don’t worry: it’s easy, painless, inconsistent with your professed utility function and/or morals, and only makes you feel terrible about once a month. But other than that, it works great!
This strategy can also be used for not signing up for cryogenics even when you have sufficient resources to do so, not pursuing less “safe” goals that would probably make you happier, and generally slowly becoming a more bland and terrible person.
The solution I’ve found to utilitarian “donation woes” is to cognitive dissonance my way through not actually changing my behavior at all. Don’t worry: it’s easy, painless, inconsistent with your professed utility function and/or morals, and only makes you feel terrible about once a month. But other than that, it works great!
This strategy can also be used for not signing up for cryogenics even when you have sufficient resources to do so, not pursuing less “safe” goals that would probably make you happier, and generally slowly becoming a more bland and terrible person.
Yep, works great!