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.
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
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.
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