Maybe this is a really dumb question, but who is this? The whole post seems to assume I would know who the person is and unfortunately I don't. So for dummies like me: Who is this?
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As a reader, if I had to generalize; Dynomight is a SF-rationalist-substack-adjacent blogger with a good understanding of statistics. The 2 closest popular bloggers I associate him with are SSC and Gwern; both pretty popular on HN.
I particularly loved his blogs on the homelessness[1] and drug[2] crisis in the US. He? digs deep, does the statistical due diligence and usually finds conclusions that richer-academics-media houses have yet to find. I have found his arguments to be in good faith and are generally unencumbered by the political repercussions of said findings.
Clicking the domain name next to the story title returns a list of previous HN discussion of the author's articles, with 1000+ comments.
I guess maybe mentoring is different because the mentee is actively seeking out advice.