Il voto non è quasi mai una forma di altruismo efficace. Se vuoi aiutare davvero il prossimo, anziché andare alle urne vai a lavorare e dona i tuoi guadagni a una buona ONLUS.
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sabato 18 gennaio 2020
venerdì 28 giugno 2019
ALTRUISMO RAZIONALE: AIUTARE GLI ULTIMI RINVIANDO TUTTO IL PIU' AVANTI POSSIBILE.
ALTRUISMO RAZIONALE: AIUTARE GLI ULTIMI RINVIANDO TUTTO IL PIU' AVANTI POSSIBILE.
La persona generosa e razionale, invece di donare denaro in beneficenza, lo investie in banca a interesse composto, quindi lo dona in beneficenza il più tardi possibile (appena prima di morire, e possibilmente anche dopo affidandolo ad un trust). L'interesse è più alto della crescita PIL e i poveri saranno sempre con te.
Allo stesso modo, il politico razionale che crede di poter beneficiare davvero gli ultimi redistribuendo risorse con la tassazione, la rinvierà il più possibile: oggi esenzione totale per il big business e tassazione pesante tra un secolo. Le grandi imprese sanno come investire in modo fruttuoso i loro soldi: se semini bene oggi, il tuo raccolto di tassatore sarà abbondante domani. I poveri, tanto, saranno sempre con te, non devi avere fretta e cadere nellatentazione narcisistica di esibire qui ed ora la tua generosità.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/05/investment-and-inefficient-charity/
mercoledì 8 maggio 2019
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            If you notice a boy drowning in a shallow pond right in front of you, you have a moral obligation to try to rescue him.
                
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            you have the exact same moral obligation to rescue children in developing countries who are dying of starvation,
                
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            The fact that they aren’t dying right in your backyard isn’t justification
                
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            every time we take a vacation, buy an expensive car, or remodel the house, it’s morally equivalent to letting people die right in front of us.
                
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            through college in America, you could instead save the lives of more than 50 children
                
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            everyday human hypocrisy
                
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            EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM
                
        
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            In 2006, Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld
                
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            In financial terms, they were looking to maximize their return on investment (ROI)
                
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            Some simply sent glossy brochures with photos of smiling children
                
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            (Take a moment to consider why a philanthropist might want to keep a “trade secret.”)
                
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            in 2007, they decided to leave their jobs and start GiveWell,
                
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            The Against Malaria Foundation,
                
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            GiveDirectly,
                
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            The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative,
                
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            These are hardly the most popular or paradigmatic charities.
                
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            United Way, Salvation Army, or Make-A-Wish Foundation, for example.
                
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            ignore charities that try to effect more nebulous (political or cultural) changes.
                
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            when we start to look at real-world altruism, helping people efficiently doesn’t seem to be our top priority.
                
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            REAL-WORLD ALTRUISM
                
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            Nine out of 10 of us donate to charity every year.
                
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            donations amounted to more than $359 billion—roughly 2 percent of the country’s GDP.
                
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            The striking thing about real-world altruism is how sharply it deviates from effective altruism.
                
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            The main recipients of American charity are religious groups and educational institutions.
                
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            no more than 13 percent11 of private American charity goes to helping those who seem to need it most: the global poor.
                
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            only 35 percent do research on any charitable gift in the course of a calendar year.
                
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            •Only 3 percent of donors do comparative research
                
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            “British people had donated over £1 billion to the Princess of Wales charity, long before the newly established charity had any idea what the donations
                
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            One study, for example, asked participants how much they would agree to pay for nets that prevent migratory bird deaths. Some participants were told that the nets would save 2,000 birds annually, others were told 20,000 birds, and a final group was told 200,000 birds. But despite the 10- and 100-fold differences in projected impact, people in all three groups were willing to contribute the same amount.
                
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            scope neglect or scope insensitivity,
                
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            People also prefer to “diversify” their donations, making many small donations rather than a few strategic large ones to the most useful charities.
                
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            Giving $3,500 to the Against Malaria Foundation will save a whole human life, while the same amount divided across 100 different charities might go entirely to waste,
                
        
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            IRRAZIONALE MA ANCHE DANNJOSO
        
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            wealthy people often perform unskilled volunteer work (and are celebrated for it), even when their time is worth vastly more on the open market.
                
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            “WARM GLOW” THEORY
                
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            Andreoni theorized, we do charity in part because of a selfish psychological motive: it makes us happy.
                
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            Making automatic payments to a single charity may be more efficient at improving the lives of others, but the other strategy—giving more widely, opportunistically, and in smaller amounts—is more efficient at generating those warm fuzzy feelings.
                
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            why it feels good when we donate to charity.
                
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            Visibility.
                
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            Peer pressure.
                
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            Proximity.
                
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            Relatability. We give more when the people we help are identifiable (via faces and/or stories)
                
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            Mating motive.
                
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            VISIBILITY
                
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            we give more when we’re being watched.
                
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            people donate significantly more when the solicitor makes eye contact
                
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            People also give more when the solicitor can see their donations,
                
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            That’s why they commemorate donors with plaques,
                
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            Even blood donors typically walk away with a sticker that says, “I gave blood today.”
                
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            Anonymous donation, for example, is extremely rare.
                
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            “They were well known within their social circle . . . even though their names may not have been splashed across the newspapers.
                
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            Not surprisingly, the vast majority of donations to such campaigns fall exactly at the lower end of each tier.
                
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            PEER PRESSURE
                
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            First of all, solicitation works:
                
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            up to 95 percent of all donations are given in response to a solicitation.
                
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            In-person solicitations, like when someone comes to your door or passes the collection plate at church, work better than impersonal solicitations
                
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            Universities, for example, often solicit donations from alumni by having other alumni from the same class call them up.
                
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            PROXIMITY
                
        
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            Remember the drowning boy in Peter Singer’s thought experiment?
                
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            Jonathan Baron and Ewa Szymanska call this bias parochialism.
                
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            only an estimated 13 percent ($39 billion) went to help foreigners.
                
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            We treat close family better than friends, and friends better than strangers
                
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            RELATABILITY
                
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            we’re much more likely to help someone we can identify—a specific individual with a name,
                
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            identifiable victim effect.
                
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            “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
                
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            Liz’s story, perched beneath her bright, beaming smile, is chock-full of personal details.
                
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            Contrast this with the Against Malaria Foundation. Although it saves hundreds of lives every year, it can’t offer names or faces of the people it helps, because it saves only statistical lives.
                
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            there’s no single individual a donor can point to and say, “I saved this man’s life.”
                
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            MATING MOTIVE
                
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            the opportunity to impress potential mates.
                
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            more likely to give money when the solicitor is an attractive member of the opposite sex.
                
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            psychologist Vladas Griskevicius
                
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            APPEARANCES MATTER
                
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            Griskevicius calls this phenomenon “blatant benevolence.” Patrick West calls it “conspicuous compassion.
                
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            charity is an advertisement, a way of showing off.
                
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            “Take egotism out,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson, “and you would castrate the benefactors.”
                
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            To donate with credit in mind hardly seems like charity at all.
                
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            one of our primary audiences is potential mates.
                
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            Stinginess isn’t sexy.
                
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            Women actively celebrate the generosity of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa,
                
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            women who have gone through menopause (and therefore have no mating incentive) are as generous as any other
                
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            even when they’re happily married with no chance of having further children.
                
        
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            charity serves to impress not just potential mates, but also social and political gatekeepers.
                
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            “Why does charity make us attractive to mates, teammates, and social gatekeepers?”
                
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            The most obvious thing we advertise is wealth, or in the case of volunteer work, spare time.
                
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            Those who are struggling to survive don’t make ideal allies.
                
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            Charity also helps us advertise our prosocial orientation, that is, the degree to which we’re aligned with others.
                
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            This helps explain why generosity is so important for those who aspire to leadership.
                
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            This is one of the reasons we’re biased toward local rather than global charities.
                
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            advertise our prosocial orientation helps explain why, as a general rule, we do so little original research to determine where to donate.
                
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            in order to signal how prosocial we are, we need to donate to charities that are publicly known to be worthy.
                
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            There’s one final quality that charity allows us to advertise: the spontaneous, almost involuntary concern for the welfare of others.
                
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            “See how easily I’m moved to help others? When people near me are suffering, I can’t help wanting to make their situation better; it’s just who I am.”
                
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            it means you’ll make a great ally.
                
        
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            spontaneous giving demonstrates how little choice we have in the matter, how it’s simply part of our character
                
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            This also helps explain why we respond to individual faces and stories more than we respond to dry statistics,
                
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            Paul Bloom,
                
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            “The mark of a civilized man is the capacity to read a column of numbers and weep,”
                
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            MISSING FORMS OF CHARITY
                
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            giving to people in the far future.
                
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            Instead of donating money now, we might put it in a trust and let the magic of compound interest work for 50 or 500 years,
                
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            These have been called “Methuselah trusts,” the most famous of which were set up by Benjamin Franklin.
                
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            he gave two gifts of ₤1,000 each to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia, and he instructed the funds to be invested for 100 years before being used to sponsor apprenticeships for local children.
                
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            helping people in the far future doesn’t showcase our empathy
                
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            “marginal charity.”65 Here the idea is to nudge our personal decisions just slightly (marginally) in the direction that’s beneficial to others.
                
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            if the developer built 11 stories instead of 10, it would reduce their profit by only a tiny amount, but it would add a bunch of new apartments to the neighborhood.
                
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            there’s no way to demonstrate to others that you’ve engaged in an act of marginal charity;
                
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            WRAPPING UP
                
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COME NEL 1972 PETER SINGER SCONVOLSE IL MONDO DELL’ETICA
PETER SINGER E' PERICOLOSO?
Di certo è stimolante ma potrebbe essere anche una mina vagante. Peter Singer è un filosofo utilitarista coerente. L'utilitarismo, se seguito in modo coerente, giunge a conclusioni dubbie se non inquietanti. Per esempio, ci chiede di donare tutto il superfluo ai poveri, un po' come fece Francesco, senonché considera questo un dovere che autorizza pratiche coercitive. Inoltre, ci chiede di sacrificare una persona, prelevarne cuore, fegato, reni per salvare la vita ad altre 4 persone: una vita vale meno di quattro vite, e per un utilitarista questo è decisivo. Tuttavia, Peter Singer, pur non rinnegando tutto cio', sostiene a chiare lettere che politiche del genere non vadano dichiarate esplicitamente perché, al momento, spaventerebbero la "persona comune". Sostiene cioè un "utilitarismo esoterico". Ora avete qualche elemento in più per rispondere alla domanda di cui al titolo: Peter Singer è un filosofo pericoloso?
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COME NEL 1972 PETER SINGER SCONVOLSE IL MONDO 
DELL’ETICA
Con una semplice osservazione: “Se noti un ragazzo che affoga in uno stagno poco profondo di fronte a te, hai l'obbligo morale di cercare di salvarlo”.
Fin qui tutti d’accordo. Ma proseguiva: “… hai lo stesso identico obbligo morale di salvare i bambini che stanno morendo di fame nei paesi poveri, almeno finché la cosa non implica da parte tua uno sforzo maggiore”.
Il fatto che un bambino stia morendo nel nostro cortile o in Malawi non cambia le cose.
Ogni volta che fai una vacanza, compri un’auto o ristrutturi casa, stai lasciando affogare una massa di bambini nel laghetto di fronte a casa tua.
E’ stato calcolato che rinunciare all’università puo’ consentirti di salvare 50 vite di bambini.
Eppure, nessuno di noi sembra curarsi di questa cosa? Perché?
Con una semplice osservazione: “Se noti un ragazzo che affoga in uno stagno poco profondo di fronte a te, hai l'obbligo morale di cercare di salvarlo”.
Fin qui tutti d’accordo. Ma proseguiva: “… hai lo stesso identico obbligo morale di salvare i bambini che stanno morendo di fame nei paesi poveri, almeno finché la cosa non implica da parte tua uno sforzo maggiore”.
Il fatto che un bambino stia morendo nel nostro cortile o in Malawi non cambia le cose.
Ogni volta che fai una vacanza, compri un’auto o ristrutturi casa, stai lasciando affogare una massa di bambini nel laghetto di fronte a casa tua.
E’ stato calcolato che rinunciare all’università puo’ consentirti di salvare 50 vite di bambini.
Eppure, nessuno di noi sembra curarsi di questa cosa? Perché?
giovedì 20 settembre 2018
CHI E’ JASON TRIGG?
CHI E’ JASON TRIGG?
Lavora in borsa.
Lavora in borsa e gestisce un hedge fund.
Lavora in borsa, gestisce un hedge fund e guadagna bene. Molto bene.
Fin qui la sua è una storia banale: di nuovi ricchi che hanno fatto soldi in borsa è pieno il mondo, e soprattutto ne è piena l’ America.
Ma la sua storia non finisce qui: Jason Trigg ha deciso di mantenere lo stile di vita che aveva da studente (vive in una stanzetta presa in affitto, consuma pasti al fast food o nei baretti, possiede solo un motorino, viaggia con i mezzi, fa vacanze brevi e vicine…) per donare tutto il sovrappiù del suo pingue compenso ad associazioni attive nel terzo mondo di cui si fida e acui chiede resoconti dettagliati.
Il suo pensiero è all’incirca questo: se avessi realizzato la mia vocazione in modo tradizionale forse a quest’ora sarei in Africa a spazzare i corridoi di qualche scuola periferica e malconcia destinata a chiudere. Scegliendo questa via alternativa, invece, ho già aperto 10 scuole con un corpo docente di eccellenza e metodi all’avanguardia.
Personalmente, ho qualche riserva su quel movimento che va sotto il nome di “effective altruism” ma dopo aver ascoltato la storia di Jason Trigg per lo meno vi potete fare una vaga idea di cosa si parla.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM
Some people join the Peace Corps to do good. But a few have concluded that joining hedge funds is a better way to save the world.
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Citation (APA): cowen, t. (2018). Intervista a tyler cowen [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 2
Intervista a tyler cowen By tyler cowen
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 10
you might be more willing to finish a physical book because it has an embodiment, maybe it’s more vivid, or maybe by buying it, you made a greater commitment,
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SUI LIBRI FINITI
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 12
serious readers probably finish too many books and sit through too many movies.
Nota - Posizione 12
CONGETTURA
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 13
Be loyal to things,
Nota - Posizione 13
L ISTINTO
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 16
If your goal is simply to learn something, so often, reading a blog post is better than reading a book.
Nota - Posizione 17
IMPARARE
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 18
as a means of communicating knowledge, once you’ve read a certain number of key, earthquake, worldview-shattering books,
Nota - Posizione 19
LEGI MENO E LEGGI OPERE CHIAVE
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 21
Books that really change your mind are the best way to learn. But there’s only so many of those.
Nota - Posizione 22
IL MASSIMO
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 22
And after that, travel, and then meeting clusters of people.
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ALTRA VIA
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 23
you should read more and more in clusters,
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AFFRONTARE UN ARGOMENTO CON LIBRI DI DIVERSE DISCIPLINE
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 34
On things under- and overrated
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Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 37
It’s overrated by the people who know what it is. It’s underrated by the entire rest of the world.
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EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 39
if you try to make it too rational in a particular way, a very culturally specific way, you’ll simply end up with less giving.
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IL DIFETTONE
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 43
I think there’s too much pretense of knowledge in the movement as it is.
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ALTRO DIFETTO
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 52
There ought to be like a Pigouvian tax on putting photos and subtweets in your tweets and threads.
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TWEETS ARE TOO LONG
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 53
should be limited and taxed with micropayments.
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Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 66
A function, say, that used to be served by music when you’re in the seventh grade — “ This is the band I like” — it’s now served by social media.
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RUOLO DEI SOCIAL MEDIA
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 70
If you’re a utilitarian focused on happiness, it’s very likely good. But if you’re a [John Maynard] Keynes-like person, who cares about the aesthetic worth of the most significant contributions, and you want to see another Led Zeppelin come to pass, then it’s probably bad.
Nota - Posizione 73
FACEBOOK È UN BENE X L UMANITÁ....MEDIA O PICCHI?
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 94
Stability is underrated, but there’s also status quo bias, so this is tricky.
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SOCIETÀ LIQUIDA
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 100
I see a creeping deterioration of the belief in individual liberty as an important idea, rule of law, cosmopolitanism,
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POPULISMO
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 106
urban construction and land use regulations.
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PIANI REGOLATORI?
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 107
They’re terrible. We should allow much more building.
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PIÙ CASE PIÙ DENSITÀ
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 120
the tax would be the other people around us?
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MENO REGOLE SULL EDIFICABILITÀ SIGNIFICA TASSARE I RICCHI
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 126
increasing returns to scale of knowledge clusters?
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UN IDEA INTERESSANTE
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 127
you need funny kinds of insulation, too.
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QUEL CHE SERVE...PARADOSSALMENTE: CONTATTO MA ANCHE ISOLAMENTO
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 127
So you don’t want a completely open system.
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Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 141
If all tech is, is spinning information more rapidly, it’s wonderful for the infovores: academics, journalists, tech people. But a lot of people are actually just as happy watching network TV with three channels
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LA MANCATA XRIVOLUZIONE DI INTERNET
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 144
If driverless cars really scale, as I think they will, many commutes will be much better.
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LA DIFFERENZA SI FA ALTROVE
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 155
“What molecules impacted my body?”
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IL CRITERIO X GIUDICARE I TEMPI
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 156
“The Trump molecules, did they impact my body today?”
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ESEMPIO
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 158
Keep a molecules diary.
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SINTESI
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 158
when your molecules diary gets really exciting.
Nota - Posizione 159
ALLORA SAREMO FUORI DALLA CRISI
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 164
a sort of economist’s economist,
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CHI È TYLER COWEN?
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 164
COWEN: I think the important thing about
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 165
how you manipulate your networks in your clusters.
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LA COSA CHE CONTA OGGI
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 167
If you’re really good at reading the system, that’s when you learn things.
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Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 168
I try to train, retrain myself in reading the system.
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LA MIA ABILITÀ MAGGIORE
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 182
how would you say friendship adds something besides the information feed of talking to people like Robin Hanson?
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L AMICIZIA X UN INFOVORE...QUANTO CONTA?
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 184
It’s very important to keep yourself engaged and motivated.
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L AMICIZIA TI MOTIVA
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 189
I was talking with a friend of mine about possible next start-ups that we could start, and we’re thinking about starting a religion.
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IL PROGETTO DI UN TALE TRA IL PUBBLICO
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 193
I think you need to stop smiling if you’re going to start a religion.
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PRIMO CONSIGLIO
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 196
The entry barriers are high. And the religions we have are quite rich and well developed.
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CONSIGLIO DI RINUNCIARE
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 211
in chess, so much of the creativity already stems from AI, computers
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LA CREATIVITÀ VERRÀ DALLA MACCHINA?
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 212
I’ve listened to computer-composed music, art. I don’t think it’s impressive yet, but I don’t rule it out by any means.
Nota - Posizione 213
ANCORA
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 214
I could imagine that working pretty well in countries like Australia and Denmark, smaller markets where life is already less harsh in some ways, and there’s more collaboration, and the work ethic is understood differently to begin with, and they have more cohesion
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L UBI POTREBBE FUNZIONARE IN UN CERTO MONDO...IL DUBBIO DO COWEN: IL TEMPO LIBERO CREATO DA UBI SARÀ CREATIVO O UNO SPRECO?
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 216
But I am an American exceptionalist. We have this unique vision, a kind of extreme Puritanism, adopting personal projects that are work based and obsessively seeing them through in a determined way
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UBI NN FUNZIONA IN USA...MEGLIO EVITARLO
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 226
If an argument is optimistic, they think the argument is more likely to be correct:
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MOOD AFFILUATION: GIUDICARE DAL MOOD DELL ARGOMENTO
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 228
If you feel someone is not condemning something with the right mood, you’ll reject
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IL DIBATTITO DI OGGI È TROPPO UMORALE
Evidenzia ( giallo) - Posizione 229
trying to teach myself how to detach and how to unbundle things,
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LA COSA DA FARE
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Religion is underrated.
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ESEMPIO DI QUALCOSA CHE NN SI VUOLE SENTIRE
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