Excellent comment. I’m mainly considering the first set of options that you’re pointing to which means that the mission and community is pretty closely connected.
I’m curious, where did you get the “lifetime impact mindset from”? It seemed original to a small group of people so I’m happy that it’s used more widely. With that said, very early on I think it’s more useful to think in terms of experiments, heuristics, and (maybe) a decade hence because early on most have lot of experience to gather about themselves and the world (although this can still be done within the larger frame of lifetime impac). But I’m starting to move away from early career and have more data and conviction in personal fit so I can make stronger decisions. I can also recommend the podcast with Holden Karnofsky and the book Range by David Epstein.
That’s a good point, at my level thinking about the details of lifetime impact between two good paths might be almost completely intractable. I don’t remember where I first saw that specific idea, it seems like a pretty natural endpoint to the whole EA mindset. And I’ll check out that book, it’s been recommended to me before.
Excellent comment. I’m mainly considering the first set of options that you’re pointing to which means that the mission and community is pretty closely connected. I’m curious, where did you get the “lifetime impact mindset from”? It seemed original to a small group of people so I’m happy that it’s used more widely. With that said, very early on I think it’s more useful to think in terms of experiments, heuristics, and (maybe) a decade hence because early on most have lot of experience to gather about themselves and the world (although this can still be done within the larger frame of lifetime impac). But I’m starting to move away from early career and have more data and conviction in personal fit so I can make stronger decisions. I can also recommend the podcast with Holden Karnofsky and the book Range by David Epstein.
That’s a good point, at my level thinking about the details of lifetime impact between two good paths might be almost completely intractable. I don’t remember where I first saw that specific idea, it seems like a pretty natural endpoint to the whole EA mindset. And I’ll check out that book, it’s been recommended to me before.