Week 6 - Careers, Long-Term Impact and Capacity Building
Career Advice for Reducing Suffering
Professional life is arguably our best opportunity to do good, far more so than other decisions such as consumption choices or voting
Factors to consider when deciding
comparative advantage
Positive Impact
Perspective Influencing High Impact Career Path Suggestions - Suffering Focused Ethics & Capacity Building
Research on macrostrategy and other high-priority topics
Benefit: great uncertainty in terms of what the largest sources of (future) suffering are and what we can do now to have a robustly positive impact
Fit
test your fit for a research career on your own by first reading up on existing resources and then writing essays or research articles with your own thoughts (e.g., Brian Tomasik’s Essays on Reducing Suffering)
general research skills, but also good judgement, a willingness to work on unconventional topics, and the ability to balance many considerations and deal with uncertainty
Non-research roles at high-impact organisations
Operations, Communications, Fundraising, Management, Research support, Grantmaking, Community building, Outreach
Careers in politics, journalism or civil service
Benefit
Raise awareness of important issues
Careers in AI safety or AI governance
Benefit
shaping the development of artificial intelligence is an exceptional lever to have an impact on the long-term future
Earning to Give
S-Risk Organizations
S-Risk Research
Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR)
Center for Reducing Suffering (CRS)
Moral Circle Expansion
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