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by LinchZhang 1y ago
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate is SO good. I tear up every time I reread it. If you haven't already done so, check out The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling.
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by LinchZhang 1y ago
We're doing a watch party next Monday! In case you and/or ppl you know live in East Bay!
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by LinchZhang 1y ago
Thank you for the valuable and constructive comment! I just didn't feel like discussing the satire angle was very interesting! In the article: > In Omphalos, Young Earth Creationism is empirically true2. Astronomers can only see lig
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by LinchZhang 1y ago
Directly addressed in the article! > Unlike monists, I think our epistemic tools matter far more than our frameworks for thinking about them. Monists correctly see that rigor yields better results, but mistakenly believe all knowledge de
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A Baby's Guide to Anthropics(linch.substack.com)
1 points by LinchZhang 1y ago|0 comments
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Why Reality Has a Well-Known Math Bias(linch.substack.com)
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Why Are We All Cowards?(linch.substack.com)
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by LinchZhang 1y ago
The Rising Premium of Life, Or: How We Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Everything. In this article, I argue that “our premium for life” – that is, our willingness to keep living, and our willingness to pay to avoid incremental chances of
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Show HN: Introducing Open Asteroid Impact(openasteroidimpact.org)
7 points by LinchZhang 3y ago|0 comments
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by LinchZhang 6y ago
"But I don't think I've ever spent time to learn a particular word - it's almost always enough to hear it in context once, and maybe get a chance to actually use it yourself once or twice, and you'll probably rememb
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by LinchZhang 8y ago
If you eat meat and aren't willing to stop, you should eat cows instead of chickens. 1. Eating beef is far more ethical than eating chicken. 1a) There's some (non-zero) probability that meat cows have net positive lives, while I d
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International Fundraiser Targets 3-6 Year Old Donors to Disrupt Nonprofit Sector(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by LinchZhang 10y ago|0 comments
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Jeff Bezos Rides Giant Robot at Secret Amazon Event(telegraph.co.uk)
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The World's Leading Ethicist on How to Do Good(huffingtonpost.com)
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13 Year-Old Gives Money Directly to the Very Poor, Talks About Why(huffingtonpost.com)
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Planning Fallacy 101: Techniques and Research(medium.com)
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The Case for Taking the Giving What We Can Pledge(effective-altruism.com)
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NY Web Developer Makes New 'Secular Solstice' Holiday, Has Hundreds of Attendees(huffingtonpost.com)
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Indepedent Charity Evaluator GiveWell Has Three New Top Charities(givewell.org)
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GDLive Newsfeed – Real-time cash transfer updates(live.givedirectly.org)
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Third-party voters are “trading votes” with Clinton voters to defeat Trump(vox.com)
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Mr. Money Mustache Donated His First $100,000 and Plans to Give Away More(mrmoneymustache.com)
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by LinchZhang 10y ago
Thanks! Are there specific word choice or phrases in the article that you think I should change to be less offensive to those on the Right?
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by LinchZhang 10y ago
OP Here. Why do you consider votetrading to be an "authoritarian practice?" If anything I would consider it significantly more democratic than a system in which voters in "safe" states have no effective say in the pres
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How Game Theory/Strategic Voting Can Decrease Odds of a Trump Presidency(huffingtonpost.com)
5 points by LinchZhang 10y ago|8 comments