If SIAI considers your time and your productivity to be directly useful enough that they’re willing to buy them from you, and happiness is useful for maintaining your productivity (as it generally is), then some purchase of fuzzies may be necessary and proper, if you don’t know any more efficient ways of converting money into the right amount of altruism-promoting and productivity-promoting good feelings. But if you have some extra money that you want to give to the charity that will actually put it to the best use, and you think SIAI is the best charity, then of course you should give it to SIAI, whether or not you work for it. (If you do work for it, presumably the best way would be to ask for a pay cut.)
(I can’t quite evaluate this from my own perspective, because either fuzzies don’t do much for me, or utilons do at least as much as fuzzies, or I don’t know what really maximizes fuzzies for me; e.g. the thought of giving $1000 to SIAI makes me happier than the thought of giving $1000 to VillageReach.)
If SIAI considers your time and your productivity to be directly useful enough that they’re willing to buy them from you, and happiness is useful for maintaining your productivity (as it generally is), then some purchase of fuzzies may be necessary and proper, if you don’t know any more efficient ways of converting money into the right amount of altruism-promoting and productivity-promoting good feelings. But if you have some extra money that you want to give to the charity that will actually put it to the best use, and you think SIAI is the best charity, then of course you should give it to SIAI, whether or not you work for it. (If you do work for it, presumably the best way would be to ask for a pay cut.)
(I can’t quite evaluate this from my own perspective, because either fuzzies don’t do much for me, or utilons do at least as much as fuzzies, or I don’t know what really maximizes fuzzies for me; e.g. the thought of giving $1000 to SIAI makes me happier than the thought of giving $1000 to VillageReach.)