It seems extremely unfortunate that the terminology apparently shifted from “counterfactually valid” (which means the right thing) to “counterfactual” (which means almost the opposite of the right thing).
Do you have a suggestion for terminology that properly truncates? (i.e. I think it’s basically impossible to expect a long phrase to end up being the one people regularly use, so if you want to fix that issue you need a single word that does the job)
“Additional donation” seems like the obvious choice in place of “counterfactual donation”, since we just mean “additional to what you would have donated anyway”, right? (The very obviousness makes me think maybe there’s a downside to the term that I’m not seeing, or I’m confused in some other way.)
Forgive me if I’m being dense, but just what in the world is a “counterfactual donation”?
Jeff does conveniently have a blogpost on this: https://www.jefftk.com/p/what-should-counterfactual-donation-mean
It seems extremely unfortunate that the terminology apparently shifted from “counterfactually valid” (which means the right thing) to “counterfactual” (which means almost the opposite of the right thing).
Do you have a suggestion for terminology that properly truncates? (i.e. I think it’s basically impossible to expect a long phrase to end up being the one people regularly use, so if you want to fix that issue you need a single word that does the job)
“Additional donation” seems like the obvious choice in place of “counterfactual donation”, since we just mean “additional to what you would have donated anyway”, right? (The very obviousness makes me think maybe there’s a downside to the term that I’m not seeing, or I’m confused in some other way.)
Sounds pragmatically weird in the case where the person isn’t known to already be donating.