I think this very personal level speaks to the bigger issue of EA as a whole choosing the most effective forms of altruism...first it was the best charities then pivoted to making sure humans are still around in a billion years. The bottom line in all of it at the personal scale and the very big scale is that there are just too many variables to be able to make these decisions with any reasonable accuracy...it just can’t be done because there’s too many random masses and energies in the universe whirling around us and there’s too many individual wills of humans making choices to push things one way or the other.
Your managers choices will hugely effect the quality of your work. If they push the department in a direction you excel in you may become the star, if they push it in the direction you fumble in then back bench for you.
So all we can do is try our best and be of good character and seek to have an awesome and aggressive imagination in all directions and produce children the same.
Which is another way of saying attend to the whole. EA would be better if it did so...do charity and do x-risk and do esoteric philosophy and do research all as a whole, none more important.
I think this very personal level speaks to the bigger issue of EA as a whole choosing the most effective forms of altruism...first it was the best charities then pivoted to making sure humans are still around in a billion years. The bottom line in all of it at the personal scale and the very big scale is that there are just too many variables to be able to make these decisions with any reasonable accuracy...it just can’t be done because there’s too many random masses and energies in the universe whirling around us and there’s too many individual wills of humans making choices to push things one way or the other.
Your managers choices will hugely effect the quality of your work. If they push the department in a direction you excel in you may become the star, if they push it in the direction you fumble in then back bench for you.
So all we can do is try our best and be of good character and seek to have an awesome and aggressive imagination in all directions and produce children the same.
Which is another way of saying attend to the whole. EA would be better if it did so...do charity and do x-risk and do esoteric philosophy and do research all as a whole, none more important.