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EAs shocked to discover how billionaires make their money (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 7 months ago

Shot, in the post:

Gina and I eventually decided that the data collection process was too time-consuming, and we stopped partway through.

Chaser, from the comments:

Josh You and I wrote a python script that searches Google for a list of keywords, saves the text of the web pages in the search results, and shows them to GPT and asks it questions about them from a prompt. This would quickly automate the rest of your data collection

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

the data collection process was too time-consuming

Just to show how time-consuming this process might have been, it consisted of two people doing google searches and assigning the names them to a handful of categories.

1 - I copied the list of signatories from their website. 2 -Gina Stuessy and I searched the internet for “(name) lawsuit”, “(name) crime” and also looked at their Wikipedia page. 3 -I categorized any results into “financial”, “sexual”, and “other”, and also marked if they had spent at least one day in jail. 4 -Gina and I eventually decided that the data collection process was too time-consuming, and we stopped partway through. The final dataset includes 115 of the 232 signatories.[2][3]

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