Life Choice: Should Someone Highly Interested in AGI Research Jeopardize Their Existing Career to Pursue It?
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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas.Option 2: Go on hiatus from the day job/career, and focus on creative pursuits and research, full-time, for some number of months (duration perhaps depending on job opportunities).
Consider your current balance of working and research.
Could you cut other activities, keep the job, and increase focus on research?
A related idea is to become more disciplined with my time, getting more out of the off days.
So far this has proven ineffective, though a skill which could be improved. However, questions remain for me over whether self-disciplining is good, in general, and where to draw the line between coercion and healthy structure.
skill
Self-discipline isn’t a skill. It’s an anti-skill and irrational.
Apparently I remain unconvinced of this. I see you've defined discipline in #3833, will continue, there. (How do we draw ligaments between ideas in different threads?! Is this deeper than merely an aesthetic or organizational function? Hmm...)
This isn’t a criticism. A criticism must point out some shortcoming. Please read ‘How Does Veritula Work?’