I think you’re correct that they aren’t being dishonest, but I disagree that the discrepancy is because ‘they’re answering two different questions’.
If 80K’s opinion is that a Philosophy PhD is probably a bad idea for most people, I would still expect that to show up in the Global Priorities information. For example, I don’t see any reason they couldn’t write something like this:
In general, for foundational global priorities research the best graduate subject is an economics PhD. The next most useful subject is philosophy … but the academic job market for philosophy is extremely challenging, and the career capital you acquire working toward a career in philosophy isn’t particularly transferable. For these reasons, we strongly recommend approaching GPR via economics instead of philosophy unless you are a particularly gifted philosopher and comfortable with a high risk of failure...
Maybe I’m nitpicking, as you say it is mentioned on the ‘philosophy academia’ page. I was trying to draw attention to a general discomfort I have with the site that it seems to underemphasise risk of failure, but perhaps I need to find a better example!
I think you’re correct that they aren’t being dishonest, but I disagree that the discrepancy is because ‘they’re answering two different questions’.
If 80K’s opinion is that a Philosophy PhD is probably a bad idea for most people, I would still expect that to show up in the Global Priorities information. For example, I don’t see any reason they couldn’t write something like this:
Maybe I’m nitpicking, as you say it is mentioned on the ‘philosophy academia’ page. I was trying to draw attention to a general discomfort I have with the site that it seems to underemphasise risk of failure, but perhaps I need to find a better example!