lukeprog comments on Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently - Less Wrong

113 Post author: lukeprog 09 May 2011 10:05PM

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Comment author: Jordan 10 May 2011 05:47:03AM 3 points [-]

Can you comment on what the end goal is for all your scholarship, aside from satisfaction?

Comment author: lukeprog 10 May 2011 05:59:47AM 11 points [-]

Right now, solving the 'first stage' of metaethics and then making novel progress on CEV. That's where almost every heavily-cited post I've written on LW has been heading.

Comment author: wallowinmaya 10 May 2011 03:31:05PM 2 points [-]

Do you plan to get involved with academia, or to be more general, is it advisable to aim for an academic career? Or do you consider academia to be too costly, ineffective and mainly focused in narrow, obscure or otherwise irrelevant topics?

Comment author: lukeprog 10 May 2011 09:36:09PM 3 points [-]

Carl Shulman is a better person to ask this of.