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I loved that book! Can highly recommend (though it's more-academic rather than lay-person I suspect).
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Global 4-day week pilot was a success(cnn.com)
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A great general one that HN folks should enjoy: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...
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Seems like you have a narrow view of what Positive Psychology is focusing on. While you're right that many authors focus on "happiness" as commonly understood, the concept of Eudaimonia (a life well lived) is also a focus
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If you're smart and unhappy, it seems like the best next step is to read some books on the topic of Positive Psychology written by researchers that study it. Two great starts: The How of Happiness and Stumbling on Happiness but t
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A book that made me see how carefully and how well we can ascertain a nebulous concept in social science: Culture Of Honor: The Psychology Of Violence In The South by Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen https://www.amazon.com/Cu
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Life hack: choose to read books written by researchers about their field of study, rather than by non-experts dabbling in social science / psychology. Positive Psychology is a great example -- rather than reading one of the dozens of
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One of my all-time-favorite philosophers is Daniel Dennett . He wrote many excellent books through which you can learn how to think better on specific topics and in general. But one of his books he focuses specifically on thinking: Intuit
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A classic in the Math field is How to Solve It by Georg Polya https://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Scie... And for improving statistical thinking , the classic How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell
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I read many books in field of psychology focusing on rationality / irrationality. I think some of the best are: Mindware by Richard Nisbett - a researcher focusing on this for decades distills his best insight in a recent book. http
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People differ, but I would (occasionally). I'm mostly vegan for about 10 years now. I've been looking forward to this technology because it will result in many meat eaters changing their eating habits - reducing the number of anim
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Have you ever heard of GiveWell ? https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities You are concerned about people thinking that dumping clothes in sub-Saharan Africa is "effective". I strongly doubt that a
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No one is forced to stay inside Effective Altruism. You can be an Effective Altruist without calling yourself one. You give to charities EA recommends without subscribing to even half of what EAs care about. If EA is "coopted by politi
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I wonder if you missed the part about Effective Altruism (at its origin and in current practice) being about giving 10% or more of one's income to cost-effective charities. This isn't a "veneer of righteousness" to giv
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The right way to think about all trolley problems is that you can be one of any of the people in the scenario. So in the standard example, rather than having to choose to pull the lever or not, you can be one of six on the tracks. I suspe
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No authoritarianism. The movement is comprised of numerous people. The general foundation is focusing on making the world a better place; many different directions are encouraged. A sensible metric is something akin to "well being of s
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Could you clarify your point then? What were you trying to say?
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I read MacAskill's What We Owe The Future - it's a great book, and a compelling argument. I recommend you read it. What I suspect might be happening is that "do gooders" (as research has shown) are often attacked by ot
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Are you suggesting that the skill of detecting a scammer (who actively was giving away large amount of money - using a very strong, costly signal) and the skill of estimating effectiveness are similar enough that having an example in failur
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All this assumes that "saving and improving lives" costs the same. Because this is very not true, your summary: "that wealthy people in developed countries deserved aid more than poor people in developing countries" fe
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Could you share where Nick says this? His dissertation is here: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/40469/PDF/1... On the Overwhelming Importance Of Shaping the Far Future If you are right, I
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Saying "Effective Altruism Is about Getting Rich with a Clean Conscience" is the same as saying "Vegetarianism is about breaking into animal shelters and letting all the animals out". What a rude and erroneous way to sum
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Where do EAs advocate for harming people today? I'm not aware of any nefarious outcomes that come from caring about making the future go well.
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EA is NOT re-skinned utilitarianism. For example here's Effective Altruism for Christians: https://www.facebook.com/eaforchristians Effective Altruism is a large movement, just because some behave a certain way, does
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This is not at all what Effective Altruism is about. If you're getting crazy rich and giving 50% of it away to cost-effective charity than you're likely doing a tremendous net-amount of good. It's not as if you get a bunc
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I saw Earning to Give as a broader strategy. I was a math teacher with no way to help those who were the worst-off in the world. By taking a fraction of my income and giving it to cost-effective charities I was able to do that. So could
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Unsure about a week stay, but if anyone is staying for 2 months or more, consider a furnished apartment by a company focusing on foreigners with long stays. My 2BR furnished apartment was $1,500/month with 3 different subways nearby, 2
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The amount of biased interest, lobbying, and funding from the meat lobby / industry is stupendous. With all that as a background, we ought to be skeptical of studies that contradict the evidence of high consumption of meat being correl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locksport > Locksport is the sport or recreation of defeating locking systems.
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I loved LiteStep - an alternative shell for Windows. It could make the desktop experience so nice - so custom. I created a bunch of themes for it: https://www.deviantart.com/yboris/gallery/12368848/litestep

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