Thanks! I think what you said is correct from the viewpoint of individual donees—an individual donee isn’t guaranteed to get all or most of the donation of a donee at a high level. Though especially in the EA community it’s probably true that donors donating large sums of money in total will usually donate nontrivial sums per donee if they donate at all (for instance, a level 5 donor is unlikely to make donations of just $100 to things they deem as the most effective uses of money, because marginal value functions rarely cross that quickly). I don’t have rigorous data to back this up and maybe I’m wrong about it.
Thanks! I think what you said is correct from the viewpoint of individual donees—an individual donee isn’t guaranteed to get all or most of the donation of a donee at a high level. Though especially in the EA community it’s probably true that donors donating large sums of money in total will usually donate nontrivial sums per donee if they donate at all (for instance, a level 5 donor is unlikely to make donations of just $100 to things they deem as the most effective uses of money, because marginal value functions rarely cross that quickly). I don’t have rigorous data to back this up and maybe I’m wrong about it.