Just adding a few more clarifications of our views here:
The current list is just the careers that we’ve found promising among those we’ve investigated, but we haven’t yet investigated very many. There’s definitely many other good options out there.
We also include ‘learning value’ in our framework, to flag the value of doing things you don’t already know much about.
Many of these career options are already listed on the ‘other careers we’d like to investigate’ list here
I really like the idea of having a list of promising careers we haven’t investigated yet that includes a couple of sentences of explanation, like you’ve done here, so I’ll probably add a page like that in the next iteration of the site. Thanks for suggesting it.
You’re also right that if you want to coordinate with the EA community, then there’s extra value from doing stuff that other EAs aren’t doing. We don’t include that in our guide, however, because the guide isn’t aimed only at EAs. I think this is an important consideration that’s often neglected though, so I’m really pleased to see it being discussed here.
Just adding a few more clarifications of our views here:
The current list is just the careers that we’ve found promising among those we’ve investigated, but we haven’t yet investigated very many. There’s definitely many other good options out there.
We also include ‘learning value’ in our framework, to flag the value of doing things you don’t already know much about.
Many of these career options are already listed on the ‘other careers we’d like to investigate’ list here
I really like the idea of having a list of promising careers we haven’t investigated yet that includes a couple of sentences of explanation, like you’ve done here, so I’ll probably add a page like that in the next iteration of the site. Thanks for suggesting it.
You’re also right that if you want to coordinate with the EA community, then there’s extra value from doing stuff that other EAs aren’t doing. We don’t include that in our guide, however, because the guide isn’t aimed only at EAs. I think this is an important consideration that’s often neglected though, so I’m really pleased to see it being discussed here.