
Big needs in longtermism and how to help with them | Holden Karnofsky | EA Global: SF 22
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The a-Conventional Wisdom
I tend to mostly agree with like EA conventional wisdom on what the few most important valuable things to do are if you can be good at them. I think where some disagreements come in are, I'm like, I don't think everyone should be trying to force themselves into those top things. And I think there is a lot of unpredictability and there's a lot to be said for people just taking jobs where they can thrive and grow. When thinking about the growth of people working on sort of the causes and long-termist causes, are there things you're particularly excited about?
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