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40 Post author: lukeprog 21 March 2012 08:10PM

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Comment author: gwern 23 March 2012 05:08:05PM 0 points [-]

Were you one of the habit formation applications?

Comment author: [deleted] 23 March 2012 05:11:58PM 0 points [-]

Yes, I was. It my article is "How to Change a Habit, and the Implications for Rationality Teaching."

Comment author: gwern 23 March 2012 05:23:55PM *  4 points [-]

Ah, that one. OK, the way we were doing it was the assistant contacted you guys, you sent in your submissions, I was assigned to read & review them, and based on that and his own reading, Luke picked people to hire.

Of the 41 people to express interest, 16 have actually sent in submissions, and I've read the first 15 including yours. As far as I know, 2 of the 16 were hired in some capacity. I guess you weren't one of them. I didn't know none of you had heard back.

(If you're curious, my assessment of yours was basically that you're right that focusing on environmental changes is a powerful boost to habit-formation, but you missed a lot of important information on what could be done short of moving across the country and the requirements for habit-formation. Middle of the pack.)

Hopefully this is helpful information.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 March 2012 05:27:01PM 0 points [-]

Very helpful! Thank you very much.