beoShaffer comments on Maximizing Your Donations via a Job - LessWrong

109 Post author: Alexei 05 May 2013 11:19PM

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Comment author: beoShaffer 06 May 2013 02:31:17AM 2 points [-]

I have mixed feelings about this post. On one hand I found it fairly useful, and would have found it extremely useful before I independently the topic and got most of your advice from other sources. On the other hand, I'm not really sure its on topic for Less Wrong.

Comment author: gwern 06 May 2013 04:36:11PM 47 points [-]

On the other hand, I'm not really sure its on topic for Less Wrong.

As far as the 'instrumental rationality' theme of LW goes, this is more on-topic than anything I've read here in months. Utilitarian ethics, optimal charity discounting, value of information, exploiting the current tech boom, overcoming geek hangups about negotiating, etc