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Thanksgiving Menu | Miranda Writes
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Happy fall, y’all – it’s almost Thanksgiving! This is one of my favorite holidays – I love having a whole day centered on being grateful for our blessed we are, and spending time with family. The fact that I get to cook and eat scrumptious fall food doesn’t hurt, either! For Thanksgiving this year, Jarrod and I are driving to Eau Claire to spend the holiday at his sister’s house. This is the first holiday I’m spending with his family, it should be fun! Stuffing with pineapple, celery and walnuts.
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P4P: Why Inequality Can't Matter
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Why Inequality Can't Matter. Of Hsee's asks people how much they would pay for two different sets of dishware:. 8, all in good condition. 8, all in good condition. 8, all in good condition. 8, all in good condition. 8, all in good condition. 8, all in good condition. 8, 2 of them are broken. 8, 7 of them are broken. Note that Set A is a Pareto improvement. A similar phenomenon occurs in population ethics. Consider two populations:. 100, very well off. 100, very well off. 100, moderately well off. Note th...
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P4P: February 2013
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Poverty and Plant-Based Diets. Forty years ago, Frances Moore Lappe wrote Diet for a Small Planet. A combination cookbook and food industry critique. In it, she pointed out that the grain we feed to livestock animals could instead be fed to hungry people. In food prices has led to increased examination of food cost determinants, and the data provides interesting insights into how our diets can affect the lives of the world's poor. According to Counting Animals. Would drop by 20%. That the top charities.
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P4P: September 2013
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Double Your Effectiveness with a Bunny Suit. I decided today that three leafletters were saturating the area, so after I ran out of my first stack I just started tallying the other two's success. One was in a bright blue bunny costume, and the other was more normally dressed. The bunny won ( p = .0008. Contingency table of what fraction of people accepted a leaflet when offered. Who would you take a leaflet from? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Double Your Effectiveness with a Bunny Suit.
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P4P: Using Math to deal with Moral Uncertainty
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Using Math to deal with Moral Uncertainty. E left[u(L) right] leq E left[u(L') right] leftrightarrow L preceq L'$. Traditionally, this is used when people aren't certain about what the outcomes of their actions will be. However, I recently attended an interesting presentation by Brian Hedden where he discussed using this in cases of normative uncertainty, i.e. in cases when we know what the outcome of our actions will be, but we just don't know what the correct thing to value is. I show here that:. The b...
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Baked Ziti | Miranda Writes
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Happy Halloween, and happy last day of MoFo! For dinner tonight I made a quick, but delicious, staple – baked ziti! It’s a hearty, filling meal that’s so much easier than lasagna, but just as yummy! 1 jar Newman’s Own Tomato Basil sauce. 1 batch tofu ricotta. Any version will do). 1 cup chopped kale, marinated overnight in garlic and olive oil. Gimme Lean sausage, crumbled and browned. 1/2 cup mozzarella Daiya. Preheat oven to 325 . Cook ziti according to directions on package. Drain and set aside.
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P4P: An Interactive Guide to Population Ethics
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An Interactive Guide to Population Ethics. Population Ethics is the branch of philosophy which deals with questions involving - you guessed it - populations. Most of the problems that are solved by population ethics are things involving tradeoffs between quantity and quality of life. In bumper-sticker form, the question investigated in this post is:. Should we make more happy people, or more people happy? Bob: "Ouch, my stomach hurts.". Classical total utilitarian: "Don't worry! It turns out that populat...
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P4P: April 2014
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An Interactive Guide to Population Ethics. Population Ethics is the branch of philosophy which deals with questions involving - you guessed it - populations. Most of the problems that are solved by population ethics are things involving tradeoffs between quantity and quality of life. In bumper-sticker form, the question investigated in this post is:. Should we make more happy people, or more people happy? Bob: "Ouch, my stomach hurts.". Classical total utilitarian: "Don't worry! It turns out that populat...
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P4P: An Improvement to "The Impossibility of a Satisfactory Population Ethics"
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An Improvement to "The Impossibility of a Satisfactory Population Ethics". Gustaf Arrhenius has published a series of impossibility theorems involving ethics. His most recent is The Impossibility of a Satisfactory Population Ethics. Which basically shows that several intuitive premises yield a stronger version of the repugnant conclusion. I will finish the analogy with addition by specifying that welfare is isomorphic to the integers. Ie $X leq X$ and $X leq Y, Y leq Z$ implies that $X leq Z$. Notabl...
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P4P: If you want to start a startup, go work for someone else
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If you want to start a startup, go work for someone else. When you look online for advice about entrepreneurship, you will see a lot of "just do it":. The best way to get experience. is to start a startup. So, paradoxically, if you're too inexperienced to start a startup, what you should do is start one. That's a way more efficient cure for inexperience than a normal job. - Paul Graham, Why to Not Not Start a Startup. Specifically, I would make two claims:. It is clear that the average person learns some...
