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Comment author: [deleted] 14 March 2011 12:11:33PM 3 points [-]

Contributing to Free Software projects, especially scientific ones, could be the best use of time for a lot of rationalists. And (allowing for politics being The Mind Killer and all that) cause- or issue-based political campaigning. For example the current campaign to introduce the Alternative Vote for UK General Elections is a pretty clear example of something where there is an obvious rational and irrational side (AV allowing more information into the system, providing better feedback).