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VoiceOfRa comments on Supporting Effective Altruism through spreading rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

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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.