MichaelVassar comments on The $125,000 Summer Singularity Challenge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 01 August 2011 02:56:49PM *  14 points [-]

Thank you SO MUCH for the clarification VNKKET linked to. I was worried. I would usually discourage someone from donating all of their savings to any cause including this one, but in this case it looks like you have thought it through and what you are doing a) make sense and b) is the result of a well thought out lifestyle optimization process.

I'd be happy to talk with you or exchange email (my email is public) to discuss the details, both to better learn to optimize my life and to try to help you with yours, since I expect that efforts will be high return, given the evidence that you are a person who actually does the things that you think would be good lifestyle optimizations at least some of the time.

I'm also desperately interested in better characterizing people who optimize their lifestyles and who try to live without fear etc.

Comment author: MixedNuts 01 August 2011 03:10:43PM 16 points [-]

If you have an email exchange and neither of you minds making it public, please do so.