Thanks for your example—a 20-40% chance you wouldn’t have applied is quite high. And I do think if anyone (EA or otherwise) looked through the 80,000 hours website you probably would get the impression that they weren’t interested at all in near-termist causes.
Also I think you’ve nailed it with the “ideal” example career-shift here.
”Ideally a reader who shifted from a neutral or only very-mildly-good career to a great career would be better (as they do for their other examples). I’d guess 80K know some great examples? Maybe someone working exclusively on rich-country health or pharma who moved into bio-risk?”
Thanks for your example—a 20-40% chance you wouldn’t have applied is quite high. And I do think if anyone (EA or otherwise) looked through the 80,000 hours website you probably would get the impression that they weren’t interested at all in near-termist causes.
Also I think you’ve nailed it with the “ideal” example career-shift here.
”Ideally a reader who shifted from a neutral or only very-mildly-good career to a great career would be better (as they do for their other examples). I’d guess 80K know some great examples? Maybe someone working exclusively on rich-country health or pharma who moved into bio-risk?”