There are few places, and certainly not the US, where too little of society's resources are consumed by politics.

But therefore, in the US at least, action to remove parts of society from politics can be very effective altruism. E.g., the citizen watchdog group NHLA in New Hampshire that targets corporate welfare and other parasitic programs (e.g. the Drug War). They spend very little money (about 40K per year), but have an outsize effect on policy.

nhliberty.org

Less Wrong comes to ManchVegas... I'll have to make one of these when I'm rich and famous.

Yeah, that makes sense... I certainly know people that have spent a LOT of effort maintaining their randomly chosen viewpoint. Goes back to meme theory, memes are selected for ability to stick in the mind and remove other memes.

(I've never taken Modafinil, just thinking that there might be some chemical help for hunter-gatherer laziness).

...and then on to any specific field which has political uses, where "publication bias" can reach Lysenko levels ;)

So just never studfy psychology and you won't go crazy. It all works out...

Hmmm... so if akrasia/laziness is the only problem, then Modafinil solves everything?

In all seriousness and gullibility, I would expect that even a minor effort into rationality would have a large financial effect, even if you only exert it for five minutes a year when you're programming your IRA/40 whatever.

Ah, an Amerind AND a billionaire! So you must be... no one on this timeline ;)

Ah, I didn't know that. I'm telomere-challenged myself (Unless astragalosides actually work, in which case I now have some other problem).

Hurry up and billionairize yourselves.... and stop believing your elders, you morons.

There is an Indian mosquito species whose larva eat other mosquito larva. Developing more variants (e.g. cold hardy) of that species could suppress other mosquitoes to a degree.

Excellent idea! And it's probably true... at least some insect that looks similar must be bad for lions....