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-7 Post author: nebulous 03 January 2012 10:54PM

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Comment author: nebulous 04 January 2012 01:58:49PM 2 points [-]

I had more ideas for Less Wrong posts, including an argument that donating to charity is more beneficial than paying for cryonics, but that assumes that the reader is altruistic. Since most people on Less Wrong are apparently not altruists, should I go ahead and post "For altruists, AMF > cryonics" here, or should I keep altruism-assuming arguments for some community more typically altruistic, like Felicifia?

Comment author: thomblake 04 January 2012 07:58:22PM 5 points [-]

Since most people on Less Wrong are apparently not altruists

I'm not actually sure that's true. Though those of us who are were probably completely unimpressed with this article, as we've already been familiar with Givewell (for example) for years.

Comment author: curiousepic 04 January 2012 03:39:39PM 2 points [-]

Make the posts, just abstract the language up one level, as you suggest.

Comment author: juliawise 12 January 2012 10:14:52PM 0 points [-]

I'd like to see it.