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Open Thread: March 4 - 10 — LessWrong

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Open Thread: March 4 - 10

by Scott Garrabrant

4th Mar 2014

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If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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NancyLebovitz12y130

Inefficient altruism-- knitting sweaters for penguins-- I welcome evo psych explanations for the desire to knit.

tut12y00

Hmm... There are people wastefully knitting sweaters for penguins, and there are penguin chicks freezing to death every time it rains. Would it be possible to get those people to knit wool sweaters for the penguin chicks?

11NancyLebovitz12y

I suggest substituting "knitting unwanted sweaters for penguins" for "raising money for rare diseases in cute puppies" because the sweater thing actually happened, research into rare diseases of cute puppies might pay off in understanding other diseases, and at least for me "rare diseases in cute puppies" has a nasty pattern match to sneering at rare diseases in people, cuteness, and puppies.