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, 8 days ago·#3638

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

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Zelalem Mekonnen’s avatar
Zelalem Mekonnen, about 3 hours ago·#3898

Have you thought about quite quitting?

Could you also come up with the reasons you dislike your job? Is it because of co-workers, managers or the work you actually do? In either case, the calculation in the calculated risk of quitting your job might be mentally checking out from it, but reaping the good thing about it, which is the financial stability.

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Dennis Hackethal, about 2 hours ago·#3900

quite

quiet

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