Agreed. My sense is that much of the discomfort comes from the tendancy that people have to want to have their career paths validated by a central authority. But that isn’t the point of 80k. The point of 80k is to direct people towards whatever they think is most impactful. Currently that appears to be mostly x-risk.
If you meet some of the people at places like 80k and so forth, I think it’s easier to realize that they are just people who have opinions and failings like anyone else. They put a lot of work into making career advising materials, and they might put out materials that say that what you are doing is “suboptimal.” If they are right and what you’re doing really is clearly suboptimal, then maybe you should feel bad (or not; depends on how much you want to feel bad about not maximizing your altruistic impact) . But maybe 80k is wrong! If so, you shouldn’t feel bad just because some people who happen to work at 80k made the wrong recommendation.
Agreed. My sense is that much of the discomfort comes from the tendancy that people have to want to have their career paths validated by a central authority. But that isn’t the point of 80k. The point of 80k is to direct people towards whatever they think is most impactful. Currently that appears to be mostly x-risk.
If you meet some of the people at places like 80k and so forth, I think it’s easier to realize that they are just people who have opinions and failings like anyone else. They put a lot of work into making career advising materials, and they might put out materials that say that what you are doing is “suboptimal.” If they are right and what you’re doing really is clearly suboptimal, then maybe you should feel bad (or not; depends on how much you want to feel bad about not maximizing your altruistic impact) . But maybe 80k is wrong! If so, you shouldn’t feel bad just because some people who happen to work at 80k made the wrong recommendation.