Yes, for the next six months (as an extension of our original three-month test). We don't have any active plans to change the system, but it's possible that we might for some of those six months. Feedback has been highly positive so far, but we'd still like to collect more data on how the prize influences readership and authorship.
(The February prize will be announced around the end of this month; our process was a bit delayed from the usual timeline, since we spent the first two weeks of March collecting feedback and discussing our options.)
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...
Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata.
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...
A preliminary estimate, and a request for better ones.
Summary
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.
Epistemic status
Exploratory and back-o...
Yes, for the next six months (as an extension of our original three-month test). We don't have any active plans to change the system, but it's possible that we might for some of those six months. Feedback has been highly positive so far, but we'd still like to collect more data on how the prize influences readership and authorship.
(The February prize will be announced around the end of this month; our process was a bit delayed from the usual timeline, since we spent the first two weeks of March collecting feedback and discussing our options.)
Thanks, Aaron.