It's basically the THINK-promoted concept seen here.
In short, resisting to social pressure and dampening the effect of anticipated social pressure on personal decision-making.
Interesting link, thanks. Some very good points in there.
Or consider the idea that you can have a larger impact by seeking a higher-paying job, and then donating the additional money to highly effective charities. This is obviously one way to have a larger impact. A bunch of effective altruits, including those connected with 80,000 Hours promote this idea. Yet this idea has also already upset a lot of people.
It is debatable whether spending your life working to obtain a better job to help others is much better than simply spending that time helping oth...
Discussion article for the meetup : LessWrong Montreal - Social Resilience
WHEN: 21 January 2013 06:30:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: 655 Ave. Du President-Kennedy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The next weekly meeting of the Montreal LessWrong group, we're going to be working on improving our Social Resilience.
We will be upstairs at the Cheesecake Factory.
See you then!
Discussion article for the meetup : LessWrong Montreal - Social Resilience