multifoliaterose comments on How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yvain 25 January 2012 07:18:59PM *  4 points [-]

I don't know a single example of somebody who chose a career substantially less enjoyable than what they would otherwise have been doing in order to help people and successfully stuck to it. Do you?

I don't know a single example of somebody who chose a career substantially less enjoyable than what they would otherwise have been doing in order to help people in an efficient utilitarian way, full stop. I know juliawise was considering it, but I don't know what happened.

Do you know of anyone who tried and quit?

Comment author: multifoliaterose 28 January 2012 06:22:03AM 0 points [-]

Do you know of anyone who tried and quit?

No, I don't. This thread touches on important issues which warrant fuller discussion; I'll mull them over and might post more detailed thoughts under the discussion board later on.