Effective altruism and the current funding situation

Re:Effective altruism and the current funding situation by jack_pp on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @11:57PM (#31335685)

It is a very fun way to learn about science. It was written with the goal to introduce science / rationality ideas through fiction and I would say it does a pretty good job of it.

I think the snark comes from "30000$" being spent to distribute a "free" book. If you think about it in terms of spending 46$ per person to advertise to a very select group of 650 people it might not sound so stupid.

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Re:Effective altruism and the current funding situation by hoseja on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:52AM (#31336625)

It is a fun book but I'm really not sure what "science" it teaches.

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Re:Effective altruism and the current funding situation by jack_pp on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:32AM (#31336882)

I said it teaches about science.

From the very first chapter :

> "Mum," Harry said. "If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. There's a quote there about how philosophers say a great deal about what science absolutely requires, and it is all wrong, because the only rule in science is that the final arbiter is observation - that you just have to look at the world and report what you see.

Chapter 8 introduces how to think about peculiar phenomenons through children games and so on and so forth.

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