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I am a huge Ted Chiang fan, but your review misses one of the most amazing things about his writing -- it is written in very brief and straightforward words and sentences!
A number of his short stories are available for free online, for instance Exhalation in Lightspeed magazine. Under 'Works' on his Wikipedia page, you can find others (sometimes via web archives)
A large recent RCT found that free contraception had no impact on birth rates in Burkina Faso - I wonder if/how this affects this cause area
One website, which doesn't quite match all your criteria, is https://longbets.org/bets/, which has bets from people like Warren Buffet, Scott Alexander, Ray Kurzweil, and Eric Schmidt
GiveWell's cost to save a life has gone from $4,500 to a range between $3,000 and $5,500:
https://www.givewell.org/how-much-does-it-cost-to-save-a-life
From at least as early as December 2023 (possibly as early as December 2021 when the page says it was first published) until February 2024, that page highlighted a $7.2 million 2020 grant to the Against Malaria Foundation at an estimated cost per life saved of $4,500.
The page now highlights a $6.4 million 2023 grant to the Malaria Consortium at an estimated cost per life saved of $3,000.
You can see all the estimated cost per life saved (or other relevant outcome) for all GiveWell's grants at this spreadsheet, linked-to from:
Luckily those suggestions are all useful for SEO too!
Some other things to consider (from figures like Tyler Cowen[1] and Patrick McKenzie[2] (edit: also Gwern) who talk about how their primary audience is now LLMs):
- Prefer short paragraphs that restate names, titles, other nouns (rather than using pronouns ("he"/"she"/"it")
- So that LLMs can lift paragraphs wholesale, and minimises errors
- Consider what license your writing is published under
- A more permissive license increases the likelihood of being included in training corpuses
- Design headlines to mirror exactly what a user's prompt might be
- Modular layouts – Bullets, numbered lists and section headers that can be shuffled or excerpted without breaking coherence
- Fewer unexplained metaphors, sarcasm, culture-specific humour
- Start with a short summary / TLDR
- The first 2-3 lines are often harvested by RAG or vertical search
- Also if someone uses an AI to summarise your piece, this helps ensure accuracy
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Search for "Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)" in this podcast
You don't need to listen to podcasts as soon as they come out :)
In fact with most media, you can wait a few weeks/months and then decide whether you actually want to read/watch/listen to it, rather than just defaulting to listening to it because it is new and shiny
In fact since you like Rob Wiblin, you can go and listen to old episodes (from another podcast) that he recommends
I have been recommended the Drone Ultimatum podcast, but haven't listened to any