agalmicvinegar

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   by agalmicvinegar 15y ago

   I don't think most people can give you an accurate answer for this -- the effects of aesthetics on user retention are probably much more subtle. Example: It's possible that altering the aesthetic of an app in some way will lead to an x% inc
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   by agalmicvinegar 15y ago

   Moralizing isn't the point. The point is that, for a given value system, there is one charity that best optimizes for those values. The vast majority of the people who donated to that museum would agree that the thousand lives are more impo
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   There is only one best charity(lesswrong.com)

   1 points by agalmicvinegar 15y ago|2 comments
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   by agalmicvinegar 15y ago

   Are people actually making long-term decisions based on that kind of obviously-too-simple model? That seems like cargo cult science to me.