The most important lesson of the contemporary world: evidence
To understand why the contemporary world is full of unnecessary pain, remember that humans are incapable of evidence-based decision-making.
见死不救
Your suicide prevention hashtag and suicide hotline are killing people
No credible study has found evidence that a suicide hotline reduces the overall suicide rate. In fact, some scientific studies have found that suicide hotlines increase the suicide rate.Do something useful: donate. Do something useful: tell other people to donate. Stop harming people by spreading lies about suicide hotlines.
My poverty will no longer stop my support of other people: DualDonate
DualDonate gives you the power to support good causes and lift me out of poverty. In a DualDonate campaign, half the money supports my escape from poverty and half the money supports good things.
Why should I even try?
Despair and hopelessness are the same feeling. It causes me to doubt myself with questions such as, “Why try?” and, “What’s the point?” Struggling against those feelings so I can do things is ever-present. To overcome the feelings, I use rationality, “You should try to ask for help because people have promised to help you.” … Read more
Hundreds of my ideas shared; trying to write about a major issue
Over the past month, I have shared hundreds of my ideas ranging from physics to climate change to computing to business to law to labor to domestic violence to social reform to photography. The ideas I shared were only the ideas that I already had written in a format that was easy to convert to … Read more
I am dumbfounded: why are you not begging to invest in me?
I have proved that I can make the world a better place and that I want to make the world a better place. It is foolish for you to not invest in me so that I can help improve your life.
I am still helping others: I do not jiàn sǐ bù jiù
Even as I hurt, I cannot neglect the suffering of other people.
Chinese Law, premature deaths, and a duty of mutual assistance
Professor Donald C. Clarke hypothesized that there is “a genuine social belief [in China] that deaths don’t just happen; someone needs to be held responsible.” I argue that his hypothesis is consistent with Chinese communitarian values and with Chinese law.