effective altruism

[gepr]

This site is hilarious:

https://make-it-rain-bloomberg.glitch.me/

I think the next time I donate money to any charity, I'll go there first. It would be kinda cool to mail $1 to everyone in a place like Friendsville city, Tennessee anonymously. You could even draw an arbitrary symbol on each dollar bill. Depending on the town and the symbol, you might increase the number of QAnon believers.

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[Frank Wimberly-2]

(327*10^6)*10^6 = 3270*10^12 is a lot more than Bloomberg has.  Didn't anyone notice this during the broadcast?

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020, 8:28 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[hidden email]> wrote:

This site is hilarious:

https://make-it-rain-bloomberg.glitch.me/

I think the next time I donate money to any charity, I'll go there first. It would be kinda cool to mail $1 to everyone in a place like Friendsville city, Tennessee anonymously. You could even draw an arbitrary symbol on each dollar bill. Depending on the town and the symbol, you might increase the number of QAnon believers.

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[Gary Schiltz-4]

I assumed it was some sort of late or early April fool’s joke. 

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 11:00 AM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:

(327*10^6)*10^6 = 3270*10^12 is a lot more than Bloomberg has.  Didn't anyone notice this during the broadcast?

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020, 8:28 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[hidden email]> wrote:

This site is hilarious:





https://make-it-rain-bloomberg.glitch.me/





I think the next time I donate money to any charity, I'll go there first. It would be kinda cool to mail $1 to everyone in a place like Friendsville city, Tennessee anonymously. You could even draw an arbitrary symbol on each dollar bill. Depending on the town and the symbol, you might increase the number of QAnon believers.





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[gepr]

This guy has a reasonable hypothesis. That's where I learned of the "make it rain" site.

Why do people keep getting this wrong‽
https://youtu.be/6egeUxIEQnM

Given what I've seen, personally, in how people don't understand or even use units well, it's reasonable. And the ancillary context (like excitement and urgency of being on set, or on social media, as well as the stigma of consistently being a slow-thinking skeptical curmudgeon) definitely causes people to think badly about all sorts of things beyond simple arithmetic.

On 9/9/20 10:13 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote:
> I assumed it was some sort of late or early April fool’s joke. 

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