Monday, December 26, 2016

2016 Donations

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In case anyone is interested, here's where I'm giving in 2016.  These reflect a fair bit of thought and communication with people in...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Multiplicative Factors in Games and Cause Prioritization

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TL;DR: If the impacts of two causes add together, it might make sense to heavily prioritize the one with the higher expected value per dolla...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Pitcher Fatigue, Part 2: The Top 10

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Earlier, I wrote a post on the declining effectiveness of starting pitchers as they get deeper into games, postulating that it came from tw...
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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Being a Utilitarian, Part 2: Conventional Charities

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This is the second post in a series on actually being a utilitarian in the world; for the first post, look here .  Also, for a more theoret...
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Less Stupid Use of Pitchers: Pitcher Fatigue

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A while ago I wrote a post  about one of the most unenlightened areas of baseball strategy: the use of pitchers.  I proposed eliminating the...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Being a Utilitarian, Part 1

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I've written a series of posts about the different types of utilitarianism  arguing for aggregate , classical, act, one-level  utilitar...
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Re-starting the blog, and results of the second contest

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As you may have noticed, after a hiatus while the school year started, I'm back to blogging. First, I never resolved the second contes...