Daniel_Burfoot comments on Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2009 10:49AM

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 29 March 2009 02:30:55PM 4 points [-]

Something about these last couple of posts has been bothering me and I think it is this: you have a misperception regarding the comparative advantages of the group you have assembled. It seems that we are youngish and neither terribly wealthy nor well-connected, but we possess a certain quality of strength or at least the desire to obtain it. Sure, if you convinced us all to donate lots of money to project X that might do some good. But it seems likely that this group can achieve some far greater good by proceeding in a less obvious way. I can only speculate upon what that larger good might be.