Owen Cotton-Barratt comments on The Donor’s Dilemma: The Time Value of Money and Maximizing Effectiveness

[Owen Cotton-Barratt]

Thanks for addressing this. I definitely think we should take it seriously.

I thought I’d link back to some past perspectives on this question:

• Karnofsky, 2011

• Christiano, 2013

• Cotton-Barratt & Todd, 2015

[kbog]

Also see: http://​​reducing-suffering.org/​​the-haste-consideration-revisited/​​

[zackrobinson]

Thanks for those links. I was quite certain that this problem had probably been identified before, but I was unable to find anything written on it.

[Andy_Schultz]

Also see this summary page on giving now vs. later: http://​​www.effective-altruism.com/​​ea/​​4e/​​giving_now_vs_later_a_summary/​​