link roundup
Just after my H-1B post came out, we had two big reports on US skilled immigration:
Jeremy Neufeld has an incredible report on different ways to reform the H-1B lottery and how we could increase the economic value of the H-1B program without changing the number of visas issued.
EIG also has a proposal. I think I’m more skeptical than average on place-based policies, but largely agree with them.
Jacob Trefethan - program officer for science at Open Philanthropy who probably owes me an email1 - has some proposed reforms for science funding.
ARIA’s Scalable Neural Interfaces group has a matching service for people with different skills interested in working on the area.
Asimov Press has a list of stories they’d like to publish.
AI designed anti-venoms! V excited about this; snakebite kills ~100,000 people a year.
Obtaining housing makes people more likely to have children. This is particularly true (in Brazil) for young people (<30).
Golden retrievers’ lifespans are shorter than they used to be. As a lifelong lover of goldens, this seems like something we need to figure out stat.
Young children have a cold about 50% of the time.
Justice Alito wants to know if people go to Pornhub for the articles.
Based on base rates for Jacob’s email responses. Hi Jacob!