Life Choice: Should Someone Highly Interested in AGI Research Jeopardize Their Existing Career to Pursue It?

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Tyler Mills’s avatar
Tyler MillsOP·#3638

Option 1: Continue working the day job and balancing the other pursuits on the side.

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Zakery Mizell’s avatar
Zakery Mizell·#3784

Leaving the job means more time for research. It also means more time to find a much better job that allows you the energy for research.

Leaving gives space for better balance.

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Dennis Hackethal·#3788

Large overlap with idea #3783 – effectively a duplicate. You could revise that idea to include finding “a much better job that allows you the energy for research.”

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