I’m halfway through how to measure anything: cybersecurity, which doesn’t have a lot of specifics to cybersecurity and mostly reviews the first book. I never finished the first one, and it was about four years ago that I read the parts that I did.
I think for top of the funnel EA recruiting it remains the best and most underrated book. Basically anyone worried about any kind of problem will do better if they read it, and most people in memetically adaptive / commonsensical activist or philanthropic mindsets probably aren’t measuring enough.
However, the material is incredibly basic for someone who’s been hanging out with EAs or on LessWrong for even a little bit. You’ve already absorbed so much of it from the water supply.
What’s different there compared to the first book?
I read the first one and found it to resonate strongly, but also found my mental models to not fit well with the general thrust. Since then I’ve been studying stats and thinking more about measurement with the intent to reread the first book. Curious if the cybersecurity one adds something more though
In terms of the parts where the books overlap, I didn’t notice anything substantial. If anything the sequel is less, cuz there wasn’t enough detail to get into tricks like the equivalent bet test.
I’m halfway through how to measure anything: cybersecurity, which doesn’t have a lot of specifics to cybersecurity and mostly reviews the first book. I never finished the first one, and it was about four years ago that I read the parts that I did.
I think for top of the funnel EA recruiting it remains the best and most underrated book. Basically anyone worried about any kind of problem will do better if they read it, and most people in memetically adaptive / commonsensical activist or philanthropic mindsets probably aren’t measuring enough.
However, the material is incredibly basic for someone who’s been hanging out with EAs or on LessWrong for even a little bit. You’ve already absorbed so much of it from the water supply.
What’s different there compared to the first book?
I read the first one and found it to resonate strongly, but also found my mental models to not fit well with the general thrust. Since then I’ve been studying stats and thinking more about measurement with the intent to reread the first book. Curious if the cybersecurity one adds something more though
In terms of the parts where the books overlap, I didn’t notice anything substantial. If anything the sequel is less, cuz there wasn’t enough detail to get into tricks like the equivalent bet test.