I was also thinking at the margin. There are some margins where what helps the self and what helps social utility conflict, and some where they line up or are basically independent. At least in our demographic (well-educated people in OECD countries), I think that most people are at a point where giving more to effective non-weird charity would at least not be a noticeable decline for the self (and for some people it would be an improvement). There’s likely to be more conflict for large increases in giving or for weird charities, but Roko’s post seems to treat the conflict between self & social utility as more fundamental than that.
I was also thinking at the margin. There are some margins where what helps the self and what helps social utility conflict, and some where they line up or are basically independent. At least in our demographic (well-educated people in OECD countries), I think that most people are at a point where giving more to effective non-weird charity would at least not be a noticeable decline for the self (and for some people it would be an improvement). There’s likely to be more conflict for large increases in giving or for weird charities, but Roko’s post seems to treat the conflict between self & social utility as more fundamental than that.