Comment on Introducing Skillshare.im

Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:20:56 GMT

Given the choice to help a random stranger or someone who I know to be a member of the effective altruist community I rather choose the person who's a member of the effective altruist community.

Resulting friendships with people with whom you share a community are more likely to be valuable than connections to outsiders.

I for example noticed that one person is at the moment on Skillshare, with whom I'm facebook friends because of Quantified Self involvement and one of my non-QS friends spoke with him about QS. Rougly a month ago I answered a question for him on the Anki forum, which I would have also answered if I would have been a complete stranger.

For community building purposes it's useful to have effective altruists do things for each other.

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