Ken Jennings to give 50% of Watson competiton winnings to VillageReach [link]

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PKuDKMkdsxGid9Jt4
title

Ken Jennings to give 50% of Watson competiton winnings to VillageReach [link]
authors

Kevin
date_published

2011-02-10T19:13
score

15
omega_karma
votes

13
tags
source

lesswrong

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PKuDKMkdsxGid9Jt4/ken-jennings-to-give-50-of-watson-competiton-winnings-to

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/33373.wss

http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=2464

Comment

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XW3ck8ZRnCFBAYSvz
authors

CarlShulman
score

8
omega_karma
votes

5
date_published

2011-02-10T19:29

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PKuDKMkdsxGid9Jt4/ken-jennings-to-give-50-of-watson-competiton-winnings-to?commentId=XW3ck8ZRnCFBAYSvz

Not to mention explicitly giving the tip to GiveWell in both venues.

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DPPvtjusJJajXPg5x
authors

utilitymonster
score

1
omega_karma
votes

1
date_published

2011-02-11T13:11

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PKuDKMkdsxGid9Jt4/ken-jennings-to-give-50-of-watson-competiton-winnings-to?commentId=DPPvtjusJJajXPg5x

Epic.

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FtAEetyhjcyifaWEJ
authors

Miller
score

0
omega_karma
votes

0
date_published

2011-02-10T21:12

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PKuDKMkdsxGid9Jt4/ken-jennings-to-give-50-of-watson-competiton-winnings-to?commentId=FtAEetyhjcyifaWEJ

What is… a great thing to happen according to GiveWell?