I’m back on social media — https://bsky.app/profile/healthyalgo.bsky.social
It is fun to get a social feed again, but I’ve got some curating to do — I’ve got a lot of interesting people to follow, but not a lot of science peers to interact with. I guess that took me about 15 years to build on twitter.
One thing about my feed at this point is that there is a lot of AI-skeptic content in my feed. I’m always interested, but it does not quite match my experience. I will be the first to say that Generative AI is bullshit (in the philosophical sense), but BS can be useful some times. And preparing for interviews is one of those times.
If you are a scientist and have to talk to the media, I hope you have some strategies for this already. If you want to practice for this interview and you don’t have someone to practice with, try asking your chatbot to pretend to be an interviewer. Here is a prompt I’ve used in my own preparations.
“Please help me prepare to provide an interview to a journalist about X. You play the role of the journalist and ask me questions, which I will provide answers to for you. Some example questions are: Y, Z, W”
I’ve also used this to prepare for hiring interviews. It seems that some child in my family has been using this approach to prepare for a job interview to be a lion tamer as well.
Got improvements? Let me know.
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