I’ve seen some people advise against this career path, and I remember a comment by Luke elsewhere that he’s aware of some people having that view. Given this, I’m curious if there are any specific arguments against pursuing a career in information security that you’ve come across?
(It’s not clear to me that there must be any. - E.g. perhaps all such advice was based on opaque intuitions, or was given for reasons not specific to information security such as “this other career seems even better”.)
IIRC the main concern in the earlier conversations was about how many high-impact roles of this type there might really be in the next couple decades. Probably the number is smaller than (e.g.) the number of similarly high-impact “AI policy” roles, but (as our post says) we think the number of high-impact roles of this type will be substantial. And given how few GCR-focused people there are in general, and how few of them are likely a personal fit for this kind of career path anyway, it might well be that even if many of the people who are a good fit for this path pursue it, that would still not be enough to meet expected need in the next couple decades.
I’ve seen some people advise against this career path, and I remember a comment by Luke elsewhere that he’s aware of some people having that view. Given this, I’m curious if there are any specific arguments against pursuing a career in information security that you’ve come across?
(It’s not clear to me that there must be any. - E.g. perhaps all such advice was based on opaque intuitions, or was given for reasons not specific to information security such as “this other career seems even better”.)
IIRC the main concern in the earlier conversations was about how many high-impact roles of this type there might really be in the next couple decades. Probably the number is smaller than (e.g.) the number of similarly high-impact “AI policy” roles, but (as our post says) we think the number of high-impact roles of this type will be substantial. And given how few GCR-focused people there are in general, and how few of them are likely a personal fit for this kind of career path anyway, it might well be that even if many of the people who are a good fit for this path pursue it, that would still not be enough to meet expected need in the next couple decades.