institutions
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People sending out hundreds of job applications, most of which go unread, is inefficient.
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There are some differences between Civilization games and real life.
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Suppose you're a choosing an expert for an important project. One approach is to choose a professor at a prestigious university whose research is superficially related to the project, and ask them to recommend someone.
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What's the bottleneck that limits making innovative American companies?
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Current science funding systems are widely considered unsatisfactory, but there's no consensus on what to do differently. Here are my thoughts on that topic.
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"There are deceptively-aligned mesaoptimizers even for a myopic base objective."