“Charity Is Not about Helping”, Gwern2011-09-15 (economics, ethics, sociology, Bayes; backlinks):
Simple cost-benefit: distributed computing considered harmful as scientific lemon projects run at high resource cost. Charitable Supercomputing Sins of Commission Sins of Omission Benefits Updating on Evidence The Hope Function Doing It Less Wrong: Rosetta @ Home Charity Is Not about Helping See Also External Links Appendix “The Exposed Nest”, Frost Backlinks:
Simple cost-benefit: distributed computing considered harmful as scientific lemon projects run at high resource cost.
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