I think there’s quite a large diversity in what people in EA did in undergrad / grad school. There’s plenty of medics and a small but nontrivial number of biologists around, for example.
What they wish they’d done at university, or what they’re studying now, might be another matter.
What does “academic diversity” mean? I could imagine a few possible interpretations.
Getting people from non-STEM backgrounds, specifically non-econ social sciences and humanities.
I read it as ‘getting some people who aren’t economists, philosophers, or computer scientists’. (:
(Speaking as a philosophy+economics grad and a sort-of computer scientist.)
I think there’s quite a large diversity in what people in EA did in undergrad / grad school. There’s plenty of medics and a small but nontrivial number of biologists around, for example.
What they wish they’d done at university, or what they’re studying now, might be another matter.