Just to explain why I voted for this piece as one of the judges… I like career profiles that emphasize opportunities in a space that I don’t think many people considered. Especially careers that might scalably employ a large number of EAs. I personally don’t think the OpenPhil-affiliated authorship was a key determinant of my judging decision, but it may have played a small role in the decision. I disagree that it “would have been impossible to write when not coming from an established organization”. I agree with Aaron that “Aligning Recommender Systems” falls in a similar category for me. Similarly, this post on plant-based food jobs also felt similarly helpful to me.
Just to explain why I voted for this piece as one of the judges… I like career profiles that emphasize opportunities in a space that I don’t think many people considered. Especially careers that might scalably employ a large number of EAs. I personally don’t think the OpenPhil-affiliated authorship was a key determinant of my judging decision, but it may have played a small role in the decision. I disagree that it “would have been impossible to write when not coming from an established organization”. I agree with Aaron that “Aligning Recommender Systems” falls in a similar category for me. Similarly, this post on plant-based food jobs also felt similarly helpful to me.
This updated me a bit, and I think I now at least partially retract that part of my comment.