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“I want a donut” “Ok, I’ll buy one for you” “Oh, I don’t mean that on consideration I endorse purchasing one—I’m just expressing my urge to to eat a donut.” There are two meanings of ‘want’ in common usage. A feeling of desire, and an endorsed intention...

Submitted by Gleb_T • 1 vote • 0 comments Outline: This is the kind of post I would have wanted to read to help me think about and prepare for a CFAR workshop, so I am writing this post to the kind of person who has not gone to a workshop but might...

For this post, GiveWell staff members wrote up the thinking behind their personal donations for the year. We made similar posts in 2013, 2014, and 2015. After Elie and Holden, staff are listed in order of their start dates at GiveWell. Elie Hassenfeld...

The Happiness Code A new approach to self-improvement is taking off in Silicon Valley: cold, hard rationality. By JENNIFER KAHN JAN. 14, 2016 Last summer, three dozen people, mostly programmers in their 20s, gathered in a rented house in San Leandro...

A small room in Ramnagar, in the drought-prone Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh, is the venue of a meeting. The babel of voices subsides as the meeting is called to order. The women, dressed in colourful saris and matching cholis are of all ages....