I like the moderated format and technically leaning of this site, though to be honest my readings over the last few days indicate the discussions are more like a debate room than a crowd-sourced problem-solving machine.
If you have a specific problem that you want to get solved that you think fits the website, feel free to open a thread in discussion.
But I don’t think there’s no problem solving. Out of the first site at the moment there are:
1) Request for suggestions: ageing and data-mining (The thread is about chosing how the OP focuses his scientific research which is a practical problem)
2) Breaking the vicious cycle (Solving a community problem, that important for some members)
3)The Centre for Effective Altruism is hiring to fill five roles in research, operations and outreach (Recruitment is a clear practical problem)
4) I just increased my Altruistic Effectiveness and you should too (Shares a practical technique about increasing the size of donations)
5) Shop for Charity: how to earn proven charities 5% of your Amazon spending in commission (Practical technique for increasing money going to charity)
6) Memory Improvement: Mnemonics, Tools, or Books on the Topic? (Sharing of practical techniques)
7) I Want To Believe: Rational Edition (Sharing of practical techniques)
8) Financial Effectiveness Repository (Sharing of practical techniques)
9) How to build the skill and the habit of experimentation? (Sharing of practical techniques)
This site is unusually populated with internal links—that must take some discipline for the posters (and either good search tools or good memories, or both!).
I will review your links, and I much appreciate your sharing.
If you have a specific problem that you want to get solved that you think fits the website, feel free to open a thread in discussion.
But I don’t think there’s no problem solving. Out of the first site at the moment there are:
1) Request for suggestions: ageing and data-mining (The thread is about chosing how the OP focuses his scientific research which is a practical problem)
2) Breaking the vicious cycle (Solving a community problem, that important for some members)
3)The Centre for Effective Altruism is hiring to fill five roles in research, operations and outreach (Recruitment is a clear practical problem)
4) I just increased my Altruistic Effectiveness and you should too (Shares a practical technique about increasing the size of donations)
5) Shop for Charity: how to earn proven charities 5% of your Amazon spending in commission (Practical technique for increasing money going to charity)
6) Memory Improvement: Mnemonics, Tools, or Books on the Topic? (Sharing of practical techniques)
7) I Want To Believe: Rational Edition (Sharing of practical techniques)
8) Financial Effectiveness Repository (Sharing of practical techniques)
9) How to build the skill and the habit of experimentation? (Sharing of practical techniques)
I don’t consider that a bad output.
Thank you for the welcome!
This site is unusually populated with internal links—that must take some discipline for the posters (and either good search tools or good memories, or both!).
I will review your links, and I much appreciate your sharing.