waitingforgodel

As with all good posts, we begin with a hypothetical: Imagine that, in the country you are in, a law is passed saying that if you drive your car without your seat belt on, you will be fined $100. Here's the question: Is this blackmail? Is this terrorism? Certainly it's...

And how you can use the same techniques to save a stranger's life for under $600 It's a strange world we live in. When I first heard of Optimal Philanthropy, it was in a news article about Bill Gates's plan for retirement. He'd decided to donate tens of billions of...