Do you have any updates on whether the Los Angeles summit is happening?

I didn't see any mention of Loretta Mayer's work here. She is testing what seems to be a viable product in several major cities (here's some NYT coverage). Do you see this work as having a different purpose/target market?

(I only skimmed the post — sorry if I missed an obvious reference!)

I didn't read the full post, but the gist of it aligns with what I did as an organizer (started Yale EA):

• I ran another organization (and joined many others) before founding YEA, which gave me some experience with logistics/keeping a group on task. I also talked to a few other new organizers to share ideas and observations (though we were all newbies at that point).
• The most important aspect of the group was that we had fun and became friends. The times I remember aren't the quixotic "EA" activities (which were pretty shambolic, since there were no intro courses back then), but the lunch conversations and movie nights and hard personal things we dealt with together. College is a very crowded time, but people returned to meetings and went to parties because they liked the nerdy, good-natured group we had formed.
  • I never even met the person who became the leader for several years after I left — turns out (IIRC) that they attended one party we held and liked the atmosphere so much that they decided to join the year after. If we hadn't been hosting parties with very light theming, the group may not have lasted through the 2010s.

Low-effort comment!

There are many stories I enjoy despite plot holes because the setting/characters/prose delight me so much that it's fun to imagine what hidden factors could justify the plot holes — I can trust an author so much that I assume they'll explain things later (or that there's a hidden explanation they created for me to discover myself).

Recent examples include Sousou no Frieren (lots of symbolism and emotion to obscure thin worldbuilding, I feel so many feelings that I barely think about the plot) and Moonfall (written like a fable from the perspective of someone who doesn't fully understand the world, so that I can imagine any plot holes may be due to something they don't see).

This isn't rational, but not all fiction is meant to be rational. And in some sense, isn't all fiction "wireheading"? Even reading rationalfic is an escape of sorts, into a world unlike our own, one that is more interesting and fun to think about (on average).

I can speak only for myself, but I treat linkposts like any other post unless the poster provides additional context.

I've linkposted many things I thought were flawed in some respect, but still worth sharing and contemplating; if someone disagreed, I'd want them to downvote me for my poor judgment.

All true! I'll add a note to the post.

Forgive me if you've written about this elsewhere, but how did the collaboration come to pass? Did the Daily Show just reach out to you? Was SWP pitched to them by someone?

Outstanding! If you end up deciding to try for a nuclear job, I wish you the best of luck.

If you're open to disclosing this, how many people reached out to you about the position? I'm curious about the Forum's overall level of appetite for ETG-oriented posts like this, which I think could be written for many other jobs too!

Thanks! 

ETFs do sound like a big win. I suppose someone could look at them as "finance solving a problem that finance created" (if the "problem" is e.g. expensive mutual funds). But even the mutual funds may be better than the "state of nature" (people buying individual stocks based on personal preference?). And expensive funds being outpaced by cheaper, better products sounds like finance working the way any competitive market should.