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80,000 hours does this well https://80000hours.org/job-board/
Like the idea, but I'm confused how companies like: * Primer - Reach your leads everywhere * Andium - Digitizing the Oil & Gas Industry fit into the "problems like climate change and food insecurity" bucket.
Like the idea, but I'm confused how companies like: * Primer - Reach your leads everywhere * Andium - Digitizing the Oil & Gas Industry fit into the "problems like climate change and food insecurity" bucket.
That's almost at the other end of the spectrum compared to what this site promises to deliver.
https://80000hours.org/job-board/ > This board lists publicly advertised vacancies that we think could help those with the right fit have a positive impact. Some of these roles help tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems, while others help people build the career capital they might need to have a big impact later. > Visit our user guide & FAQ to better understand why we list these roles and to learn about…
Like the idea, but I'm confused how companies like: * Primer - Reach your leads everywhere * Andium - Digitizing the Oil & Gas Industry fit into the "problems like climate change and food insecurity" bucket.
- https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/biden-admins-me...
- https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2021/03/26/environmental-advoc...
The issue with this site is that someone in tech will inflate the ‘goodness’ of tech projects. I looked at a few companies and they’re hardly world changing. If your goal is doing good things you’d be far better off working at FAANG or investment banking and donating a % of your salary to proven effective organisations than bet on ‘digitising oil and gas’. 80,000 hours does this well https://80000hours.org/job-board/
"Research Scientist, AI. Facebook"
"Data Scientist, Technology and Resource Investment Decision-making. US Government, Central Intelligence Agency"
"Deep Learning Researcher, Computer Vision Algorithms. Baidu"
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Came to say exactly the same thing. I was confused about how the top few posts fit the theme. You could even have a set of tags like #greencompany or #foodsecurity to identify each company's contribution and how tangible it is.
Also, also came to say exactly the same thing. My thought process: 1. Oh - neat idea! [ Checks website ] 2. Okay, cool. Early stages, but on the right track. 3. Who the hell are these companies 4. Ugh, I'm not going to click on each one to find out. 5. Let's go comment about this on HN. I bet someone beat me to the punch.
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That's almost at the other end of the spectrum compared to what this site promises to deliver.
The oil & gas industry likes to gaslight (ha) people into thinking they're fighting climate change, but it's a bizarre doublethink endeavour and they're mainly doing it for goodwill, government grants, and to levy more costs to the eventual consumers while reducing their own costs.
When the oil companies are finally out of the hydrocarbon game, they will have built their platform upon the biggest set of externalised costs in history, and their old assets will still be polluting in new hands.
Like the idea, but I'm confused how companies like: * Primer - Reach your leads everywhere * Andium - Digitizing the Oil & Gas Industry fit into the "problems like climate change and food insecurity" bucket.
Hi, Andium here. Definitely understand the skepticism about our work with the oil and gas industry and its impact on climate change. The high level is that the world doesn't know whether society has reached peak oil. Even if it has, oil consumption will continue to be a major contributor to planet warming gases (CO2 and CO2 equivalents) for decades to come. While regulation plays catch up and alternative energy usage…
- "At Andium, we’re saving companies millions of dollars annually, while increasing safety"
- "we offer an ecosystem of automated products and services that provide the next generation of remote monitoring capabilities"
- "Increasing site visibility while reducing onsite time, manual labor, and human error equates to major cost savings, and saving our clients’ time and money is in our DNA"
- "We've spent countless hours developing our technology and created the first-ever thermal imaging solution for safe, cost-effective tank-level management that has saved our clients millions at scale"
If you're truly in the same bucket as "problems like climate change and food insecurity" problems, you probably want to update your core messaging across your website
Like the idea, but I'm confused how companies like: * Primer - Reach your leads everywhere * Andium - Digitizing the Oil & Gas Industry fit into the "problems like climate change and food insecurity" bucket.
Hi, Andium here. Definitely understand the skepticism about our work with the oil and gas industry and its impact on climate change. The high level is that the world doesn't know whether society has reached peak oil. Even if it has, oil consumption will continue to be a major contributor to planet warming gases (CO2 and CO2 equivalents) for decades to come. While regulation plays catch up and alternative energy usage…
Honest question, but doesn't enabling the Oil & Gas industries to reach peak effectiveness have the opposite effect?
What I mean by this, O&G right now is highly ineffective and to fit into regulatory limit they need to downscale operations just to have a "reserve". By allowing them, for example, to monitor the Flare and other things, don't you actually allow them to increase the production because now they have the data and means how to squeeze effectively into the limits?