Astonishingly good <3 <3 <3

Everything is so polished and well communicated: chef kiss! Nice work team!

Trachoma: how a common cause of blindness can be prevented worldwide - I knew very little about trachoma before working on this piece. I was very surprised by how much progress had been made against it, and also the scale of the data collection effort (eye tests of more than 2.6 million people!) - it raised my ambitions on how much was possible against neglected diseases with targeted efforts.

<3 just read the post and I found it a fun read! Man, successful public health initiatives are so great :') Definitely one of the more inspiring things about humanity.

True, it's cool that we have large scale data on this -- nice graphs! Thanks for sharing :)

To me, the main one is figuring out a good article structure early on: what the author actually needs to explain first, how they'll introduce and connect the different points, and so on, in a way that's readable and logical, while also conveying their message effectively. I think people often struggle with that, and I would want to use their time more efficiently so they know what extra research to do (or what to cut down if it turns out it wasn't necessary).

That's really interesting, thanks! I don't have a great idea of what editors for journals do, and it's interesting to me that you're involved so early in the writing journey vs receiving a mostly complete piece. Thanks for the answer!

I liked these questions from @Toby Tremlett🔹, I'd be curious for your answer!

9. As head of the WHO for a day, what is the first concrete action you would take?

6. Editing Works in Progress, what one lesson has most improved the ideas you publish?
 

What's one of your favorite posts you've written at OWID?

I love this post, Sofia! Glad you wrote it, and I think it’s great advice. For readers interested in operations jobs, I think volunteering at EA events is a great way to quickly gain experience and demonstrate competence.

This is also how I landed my first EA job! The head of events at CEA reached out to ask if I would apply to her job opening, in part because I had volunteered at an EA Global a few years prior and stuck out in her memory (we didn’t otherwise know each other). I applied for and ended up taking that job, and then later switched roles internally at CEA.

Obviously volunteering is not a sure-fire way to land a job, but I think showing up invested / keen / with high ownership goes a long way to building a reputation for competence. The work is also impactful (and IMO fun xD) — these events can’t run without help from volunteers!

The most important graph in AI right now

I opened this forum post expecting to see the graph — here it is, for ease of reference: 

Description from the paper:

The length of tasks (measured by how long they take human professionals) that generalist frontier model agents can complete autonomously with 50% reliability has been doubling approximately every 7 months for the last 6 years. The shaded region represents 95% CI calculated by hierarchical bootstrap over task families, tasks, and task attempts.
 

I didn't know that eyestalk ablation affected a relatively small number of individuals before reading this post, and found that a useful note (has already come up once). Thank you for sharing!

I found this a helpful frame for having better feedback conversations, and in the last 1-2 days I've occasionally thought to myself, "how could I be doing more socratic persuasion here?" Thanks! I particularly liked the "goals" sections of the examples, found them helpful :)

They are of course aware of EA via large EA participation in their PFA donation drive, but I believe they have a distant, caricatured view of the community itself.

Aww, that is such a pity. Thanks for sharing that anecdata.

As someone who grew up watching the vlogbrothers I have always felt like we should be allies / friends! Fingers crossed, maybe one day 🤞