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By coincidence I just published a similar post to this and mentioned being honest / transparent in EA job applications. I think your examples are really helpful (and I've linked them to my post).
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Michael Nielsen has a beautiful new essay on moral imagination: the ability humans have to 'develop and transmit new notions of good action, indeed, even new kinds of good'.
As examples, he gives:
* Hammurabi's creation of a code of laws (in 1754 BCE) and his justification of his rule not in terms of divine or hereditary right, but by the delivery of justice to his citizens.
* St Gregory of Nyssa's...
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Note on process: After having some version of this conversation several times and saying, “we should probably write about this publicly,” we took the less heroic route: we recorded one of our conversations, fed the transcript into an LLM, and then substantially revised the structure, substance, and framing ourselves. We will not be sharing the transcript, as it is in...
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I believe the standard literature estimates for the number of DALYs attributable to a case of stunting are too low, largely because they don’t account for the long term effects. This means that childhood nutritional interventions that reduce the prevalence of stunting may be substantially more cost-effective than previously believed.
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I really enjoyed this post, especially the explanation about honesty, and the hiring process being collaborative if your goal is aligned with that of the org you're applying for.
Likewise - I listened to this via the Nonlinear Library but decided to open the Forum version just to leave a comment endorsing this post's advice.
Both this and Six Takeaways from EA Global and EA Retreats contain a lot of things that I already believed were useful advice that not enough people are aware of and that I wasn't aware of a good concise clear writeup on, so I appreciate you (Akash) producing these posts :)