Meta: would change the title to tell people what OR is, I would have been much more likely to click if I knew what it was and didn’t just read every forum post.
But otherwise, I really enjoyed this post and cool to learn about a new field! Would love to see more like this.
Is there a reason you chose not to expand the ‘OR’ acronym in your revised title (or, for that matter, in your profile bio)? Its meaning may be obvious to you, but you may be overestimating how obvious it is to others.
I mostly expected people not to know what OR stood for, and then hover over the link to find out more. I also don’t think “Operations Research” is actually much more elucidating, especially given how overloaded the word “operations” is within EA, but it seems this may have been mistaken given this feedback so I have updated.
Meta: would change the title to tell people what OR is, I would have been much more likely to click if I knew what it was and didn’t just read every forum post.
But otherwise, I really enjoyed this post and cool to learn about a new field! Would love to see more like this.
Agreed. A title of “Why EA needs Operations Research” would likely result in more people reading these ideas.
Agreed! Commenting to make my strong upvote even stronger
Thanks for the feedback! I hope the revised title is an improvement.
Is there a reason you chose not to expand the ‘OR’ acronym in your revised title (or, for that matter, in your profile bio)? Its meaning may be obvious to you, but you may be overestimating how obvious it is to others.
I mostly expected people not to know what OR stood for, and then hover over the link to find out more. I also don’t think “Operations Research” is actually much more elucidating, especially given how overloaded the word “operations” is within EA, but it seems this may have been mistaken given this feedback so I have updated.