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Should effective altruists care about the US gov't shutdown and can we do anything?

For those who haven't heard, NIH and NSF are no longer processing grants, leading to many negative downstream effects. I've been directing my attention elsewhere lately and don't have anything informative to say about this. However, my uninformed intuition is that people who care about effective altruism (research in general,...

Oct 1, 20130

[Link] Sparrows may be vulnerable to sunk-cost-like effects

You walk into a store that sells two identical candies. Would you buy the candy that ordinarily costs $2 at 50% off (for one dollar), or the candy that ordinarily costs 10$ for 80% off (for one dollar)? In an isomorphic situation, sparrows preferred the latter deal. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kgroup/publications/pdf/kacelnik_marsh_2002_animbehav_costs.pdf

Jul 21, 20135

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Should effective altruists care about the US gov't shutdown and can we do anything?

[Link] Sparrows may be vulnerable to sunk-cost-like effects

Should effective altruists care about the US gov't shutdown and can we do anything?

[Link] Sparrows may be vulnerable to sunk-cost-like effects