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Is there good reason to think that optimizing resumes will help with the job searching process? I've heard that many resume screens are automated these days, which has led to my he…

Agreed. The latency between keypress and result makes it such a pain to use.

Agreed. After writing my own static site generator in Python, I went back and was impressed with all the options available in Pelican. Lots of things I wished I had built were incl…

To add some more context, here's a rather readable summary: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/FRv7ryoqtvSuqBxuT/underst...

SSC has an interesting take on theodicy that addresses this claim: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/15/answer-to-job/

Doesn't seem like a well-curated list. Some of these, e.g. Uber's God Mode, don't even fall under the normal usage of the term "AI". Others, like Palantir or WeChat, seem to denigr…

Trees aren't enough to scale up. You can play with toggling deforestation and reforestation here: https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?p50=0.... Even in the most o…

I wrote about something similar for self-help, more broadly here about how good self help is self-defeating: https://mlu.red/55070266310.html

Dustin is also notable for starting Good Ventures ( https://www.goodventures.org/about-us ) which funds a lot of research and philanthropy into some great causes.

I see. Thanks for adding to the clarification. I think that the presentation of nulls as "results" can definitely be disingenuous. Ideally, science would have a better database to …

I definitely think there's more room for this sort of guided / ML analysis, but I'm not quite sure to make traction on extracting the structure of scientific papers...hopefully som…

Oof, that sucks to hear. Thanks for letting us know it's not been updated.

That sucks to hear. Null results are important, as you say, if only to dissuade others from doing the same. See also the "file-drawer problem" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publi…

Yeah, my bad. I mis-remembered. Thanks for clarifying!

Fogg has some good thoughts on positive behavior change. James Clear, who wrote Tiny Habits, is another good person in this space who writes reasonable stuff. Self-plug for an over…

I haven't read Giridharadas's book, and this article was very light on substance. I do think this is an interesting topic. Effective altruism has lots of ongoing internal discussio…

The notion of "Dead Child Currency" ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6cRhG6PKeASdNHqxD/dead-child... ) may intrigue you.

With the rise of highly effective black box models, there's been a rise in interest towards interpretability for machine learning. This is an area I'm excited about, so I did a div…