Cliqset
Cliqset.com is nice social media aggregator that collects your postings from all the websites like blogger, twitter, reddit etc in one place.
Pretty useful. The site is bit slow to update your post.
2 million $ to the person you love or 1$ anonymously to 200 million poor?
Here is an ethics thought experiment that explores personal connection in altruism, similar to Peter Singer's thought experiments. Suppose you were given these two choices Choice A: You can give any single person you know (other than yourself) 2 million $ openly. Choice B: You can give 200 million of the poorest people on the earth 1 $ each, anonymously. If one were a sensing and feeling type of person, then the choice would be obviously A. You could give your loved one 2 million dollars and that would be enough to make them financially independent for the rest of their life (assuming they use the money judiciously). You would be interacting with them regularly, you know them well for a long time and will continue seeing them be happy for the rest of your life. This is similar to the ending in The Last of Us. If one were logical, intuitive and truly selfless then choice B is clearly the better choice. Poor people across the globe would benefit many orders of magnitude more than in...
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