Wow, this is super exciting and thanks so much to the judges! ☺️
An interesting dynamic around this competition was that the promise of the extremely cracked + influential judging team reading (and implicitly seriously considering) my essay was a much stronger incentive for me to write/improve it than the money (which is very nice don’t get me wrong).[1]
I’m not sure what the implications of this are, if any, but it feels useful to note this explicitly as a type of incentive that could be used to elicit writing/research in the future
Insofar as I’m not totally deluding myself, I mean the altruistic impact of some chance of shaping the judges’ views as opposed to the possibility of seeming mildly clever to some high status figures
Wow, this is super exciting and thanks so much to the judges! ☺️
An interesting dynamic around this competition was that the promise of the extremely cracked + influential judging team reading (and implicitly seriously considering) my essay was a much stronger incentive for me to write/improve it than the money (which is very nice don’t get me wrong).[1]
I’m not sure what the implications of this are, if any, but it feels useful to note this explicitly as a type of incentive that could be used to elicit writing/research in the future
Insofar as I’m not totally deluding myself, I mean the altruistic impact of some chance of shaping the judges’ views as opposed to the possibility of seeming mildly clever to some high status figures
Congrats Aaron!