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Comment author: Lumifer 17 June 2015 07:53:33PM 1 point [-]

I do get that in the US or parts of it, social pressure and status plays a role.

Connect the dots to the widespread I-truly-believe Christianity in the US. A LOT of charitable giving in the US is driven by religion.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 June 2015 08:19:55PM 1 point [-]

Yes, but at LW it is remarkable that a bunch of atheists did not even ask whether one should be altruist at all but went straight to how to do it effectively. It went without saying that you are still an altruist. Hypothesis:feeling of surplus.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 22 June 2015 05:58:40AM 2 points [-]

If you give a nerd a sufficiently interesting optimization problem, in any domain, he will start trying to figure out how to optimize it without asking if that this the right thing to optimize. This is a special case of nerd sniping.

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