This is the NGO equivalent of vibe coding. The methodology is wrong, the results don’t make any sense, but it feels right. Ship it!

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dang 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

	▲	ipnon 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, I’m simply making the point that until recently programming required a certain amount of rigor and precision that is no longer necessary because of AI. And that now we can do the sort of hand-wavy, p-hacky work that has been available to social scientists for decades.

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js8 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most of the composite indexes of this kind are similarly meaningless. It's certainly not just the domain of NGOs.

But to be fair, if it makes people to stop and look why they have different preconceived ideas, I think it's a positive. For example I didn't know that Norway is so militaristic.

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bryanthompson 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

as long as it gets those blob dollars!