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My current impressions on career choice for longtermists - EA Forum
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This post summarizes the way I currently think about career choice for longtermists. I have put much less time into thinking about this than 80,000 H…
Linch 5y 75 1 0 I think this is a really well-written piece, and personally I've shared it with my interns and in general tentatively think I am more inclined to share this with my close contacts than most 80k articles for "generic longtermist EA career advice" (though obviously many 80k articles /podcasts have very useful details about specific questions). 2 things that I'm specifically confused about: As Max_Daniel noted, an underlying theme in this post is that "being successful at conventional metrics" is an important desiderata, but this doesn't reflect the experiences of longtermist EAs
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