Hi Gregory, thank you so much for this thoughtful reply!
This is exactly the kind of discussion and analysis I was hoping to encourage with this post.
Your upshot totally makes sense to me: E2G is probably a bad idea in lower-income countries.
I also buy that being a practicing doctor likely is not the most impactful thing most people in lower-income countries can do either
So what is? A lot of the career considerations probably are still directionally right: government policy, org building at effective nonprofits, research into global priorities, etc.
But getting better answers on these questions is work to be done by EA groups worldwide (much of it on a country-by-country basis as you say—thanks for pushing me on this)
And for what it’s worth, I think the advice you gave in 2015 totally makes sense given the likely audience then. It’s exciting that the audience has changed now and will continue changing.
Hi Gregory, thank you so much for this thoughtful reply!
This is exactly the kind of discussion and analysis I was hoping to encourage with this post.
Your upshot totally makes sense to me: E2G is probably a bad idea in lower-income countries.
I also buy that being a practicing doctor likely is not the most impactful thing most people in lower-income countries can do either
So what is? A lot of the career considerations probably are still directionally right: government policy, org building at effective nonprofits, research into global priorities, etc.
But getting better answers on these questions is work to be done by EA groups worldwide (much of it on a country-by-country basis as you say—thanks for pushing me on this)
And for what it’s worth, I think the advice you gave in 2015 totally makes sense given the likely audience then. It’s exciting that the audience has changed now and will continue changing.