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The comparison with Animal Advocacy Careers is simplest—they focus on animal advocacy careers (or animal welfare more broadly).
80,000 Hours indeed have a broader set of cause areas, with significant overlap with ours. That being said, there are several differences. 80K has more roles in longtermist or x-risk focused cause areas, while we focus more on other areas. We already have more jobs in absolute numbers in Global Health & Development—as this is a major area of focus for us and for a large portion of our audience.
Over time we expect this to be true for more of our already-included cause areas, like climate change, mental health, global aid policy, and others. This is our job board’s first week so it’ll take time. But we already see them as part of our core mission.
Finally, as we noted in the post—even for roles that already appear on other job boards, we’re hoping having them on the Probably Good website will expose them to our audience, most of which finds us without prior familiarity with 80K or AAC.
In that case, there’s currently no way to filter by salary without excluding jobs that don’t have posted salaries, but I’ve added that to the list of features we’d like to add in subsequent versions of the job board. Thanks for the feedback!
Hey Pat,
Thanks for the comment! Do you mean you’d like a toggle to “Only show jobs with posted salaries” ? If so, we’ll add that to the list of potential features to add.
In the meantime, you can accomplish the same thing by setting the max (or min) to any number—you’ll see it set in the filters bar above the listed jobs—then setting it back to its starting position. Until you clear the salary filter that will show all (and only) the jobs on the board that have posted salaries.
If you have any other features you’d like, please let us know!
Hey Jamie, thanks for the comment!
80K and Probably Good have the same goal: get more people into impactful careers. Where we differ is mostly in emphasis and approach.
At a high level Probably Good differs in a few significant ways:
While 80K focuses more on longtermism, x-risk, and AI risk, we aim to provide impact-focused career advice for people in a wide range of high-impact careers, across many cause areas (more cause areas still coming :)).
Correspondingly, we aim to give (relatively) more weight to worldview diversification, moral uncertainty, and epistemic uncertainty. This leads us to focus more on information and tools for making career decisions rather than final conclusions.
Finally, as you noted—we have a different perspective and tone even when discussing the same issues.
So folks who already strongly endorse longtermism (and even more so 80K’s top priority paths) are most likely to find that 80K already pretty much fulfills their needs (and we tend to direct people towards them—not because we don’t also support the relevant cause areas, but because they’ve specialized in those areas more).
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Thanks for the feedback! That’s an interesting idea, and would be challenging to pull off, but we’ve added it to the list of potential future features for the board.