“Actually, I can’t find any discussion of choosing a college major on the 80,000 Hours site, though there are a couple of threads on this topic posted to LessWrong.”
Not a tremendous excuse, but it wouldn’t surprise me if this is basically because 80k is UK-based, where there is no strong analogue to ‘choosing a major’ as practised by US undergraduates; by the time someone is an undergraduate in the UK (actually, probably many months before that, given application deadlines), they’ve already chosen their subject and have no further choices to make on that front except comparatively minor specialisation choices.
“Actually, I can’t find any discussion of choosing a college major on the 80,000 Hours site, though there are a couple of threads on this topic posted to LessWrong.”
Not a tremendous excuse, but it wouldn’t surprise me if this is basically because 80k is UK-based, where there is no strong analogue to ‘choosing a major’ as practised by US undergraduates; by the time someone is an undergraduate in the UK (actually, probably many months before that, given application deadlines), they’ve already chosen their subject and have no further choices to make on that front except comparatively minor specialisation choices.