Oh for sure, and I gladly donated.

I just didn't want this to turn into a whole conversation about effectiveness, but rather the power of stories

Someone accidentally donated $15,000 instead of $150 to their neighbour's charity in Bangladesh. Before they could get a refund they were inundated with pictures and videos from the grateful recipients.

In addition to then donating $1,500 rather than the $150 as originally planned, they also told the story of their blunder on reddit, which went viral and caused ~3000 people to donate ~$100,000

Warm fuzzies galore

See also: https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

Looking forward to this!

While I do like spacing things out, 1 month between posts seems like a long time to me

Thanks for sharing! This is exactly the kind of thing I'd love to see more of on the forum

You mentioned starting ADHD meds? I'd be very interested in reading about the process leading up to that, if you feel like sharing

Do you have a view on using LLMs as therapists as suggested here?

The "poorly identified fiat" did tickle me

Thanks for the summary!

You mention that ~9% of Trial Pledgers have gone on to take the GWWC Pledge, do you know what the other 91% did (eg. extend their trial, stop entirely, commit to a smaller pledge like OFTW)?

This is potentially very exciting idea! Some thoughts:

• How does this compare to running a fundraiser for an effective charity (for example via GWWC like this one)
  • Or possibly running 3 fundraisers simultaneously to get people thinking about comparing charities
• You are kind of imposing a burden on people, like if I were to receive this coupon, I'd have a deadline to go and do some stuff, which I might not end up doing, and then feel guilty about
• I wonder about the privacy angle, I guess people's choices here are known to the organiser?
• The viral effect is interesting but how will it be measured?

I'd be interested in seeing your comments David!