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by yboris 4y ago
Daniel Dennett has an excellent book Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393348784 Here's a short article about it: https://fs.blog/dan-dannetts
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I've now given close to $75,000 to Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) - my primary place of donations; and probably over $25,000 to other organizations (some deworming, but most of it focusing on animal welfare). In addition, I've o
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I've been part of Effective Altruism (EA) for over a decade (joining Giving What We Can (GWWC) over 10 years ago - donating at least 10% of my income; donating 50% during one of the years of my life - https://boldergiving.
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I feel like any repair at the dealership costs at least 50% more than if you go to another establishment. Does that ring true to anyone else?
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Dropping the incidence of malaria in a community is helping the community develop themselves. It's harder to improve your lot in life when your family is sick with malaria. There is nothing you can teach for people to avoid malaria a
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I agree with your point about being precise with statements. I tried to be vague with words because I didn't look up any statistics for the statement I was making (especially that "racist" is an attitude that comes in degrees
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Please consider steelmanning (as opposed to strawmanning ) ideas you come across. To call an idea considered by numerous people as important "inane" seems inappropriate. You do suggest you may be misunderstanding the idea, bu
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Humans generally don't think hard about big issues (perhaps because) in general they have very little they can do about them anyway. Humans consistently feel overconfident (and are incorrect) about many things. On the topic of ethics,
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A recent (and characteristically in-depth) interview from 80,000 Hours podcast about malaria control: > James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination https://80000hours.org/podcast/ep
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The "Veil of Ignorance" is an idea initially developed by John Harsanyi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harsanyi Rawls for some reason focused only on "within a country" so he failed to recognize
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This probably depends on area of concern. Mathematicians seem to be best in their youth (though of course they can continue amazing work into their late age). Philosophers are often able to write their best work in later stages of their liv
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Forbes | 100% remote | https://boards.greenhouse.io/forbes/ I've been working at Forbes for 5+ years now and I've been happy (why I stayed). It's a good place to work - flexible hours (start/end of
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Why are you worried about distractions? Is the sole focus of your company that the people you pay are 100% focused on something? Obviously not. Pick a better metric, measure it, and see if it is performing worse than before remote work. And
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I found a tremendous amount of gratification from joining Effective Altruism - a movement of people working on doing as much good in the world as they can (through careers, charitable donations to cost-effective charities, etc). Specifi
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Specifically for TypeScript I created a CLI to visualize the call graph https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph Works for _functions_ not classes. I'm unsure how useful this tool is, but I suspect it
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Maybe not the forum to ask, but I have added an animation to my homepage - an image appears after it is loaded and slowly glides to its new resting place (different from initial location). I suspect this is why my LCP is crap. But I'm
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I wish I knew, but I'm unsure. I think with effectiveness in mind, the Effective Altruists are your best community to explore and interact with. There are various Facebook groups (and other areas on the web) within EA that focus on
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Regardless of where you end up working, consider donating some non-trivial part of your income to cost-effective charities (ones that use research-proven methods to help as many individuals as possible "biggest bang for the buck&quot
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For focusing on the world's most important problems in effective ways, please look into 80,000 Hours (an organization named after the approximate number of hours of work in a typical life-long career). https://80000hours.o
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About 4 months for the version 1.0.0 - all outside of a full time job (I was really excited and spent maybe 20-30 hours per week on it maybe). Since then it's been about 3 years of intermittent work - adding features, fixing bugs. The
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Thank you for sharing! I wish more people were transparent about money (to know what's possible). In my example, I created Video Hub App that sells for $5 (and $3.50 goes to a cost-effective charity). I'm averaging about $500
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The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers(nytimes.com)
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The four-day work week is coming: Here's what it could mean for you(zdnet.com)
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California debates opening supervised sites for people to use drugs(npr.org)
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I spent 2 years and quit - but had an amazing time before and after :) https://yboris.com/quitting/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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Thank you for this amazing link! 4-day-workweek arguments from 1986 !!!
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Related: a classic essay "In Praise of Shadows" (1933) discussing traditional Japanese aesthetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Shadows
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Maybe relevant to those interested: The Snowflake Method https://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-me... The gist (might work better for fiction, unsure): write a single sentence summary, then, three
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A subreddit for you: /r/DataHoarder - "It's A Digital Disease!" https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ You can reduce electricity use if you can keep your content stored in a powered-off st

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