By the way, I personally resonate with your advice on forming an inside view and am taking that path, but it doesn’t fit everyone. Some people don’t want all that homework, they want to get in a company and write code, and, to be clear, it is common for them to apply to all orgs that [they see their names in EA spaces] or something like that (very wide, many orgs). This is the target audience I’m trying to help.
I would just probably tell people to work in another field than explicitly encouraging goodharting their way to trying to having positive impact in an area with extreme variance.
By the way, I personally resonate with your advice on forming an inside view and am taking that path, but it doesn’t fit everyone. Some people don’t want all that homework, they want to get in a company and write code, and, to be clear, it is common for them to apply to all orgs that [they see their names in EA spaces] or something like that (very wide, many orgs). This is the target audience I’m trying to help.
I would just probably tell people to work in another field than explicitly encouraging goodharting their way to trying to having positive impact in an area with extreme variance.