Lumifer comments on What should a college student do to maximize future earnings for effective altruism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 August 2013 05:24:40PM *  0 points [-]

As already mentioned, don't confuse a startup with a VC-funded startup. These are very different things with very different probabilities of success (and different expected returns).

I don't think going purely by the expected return and ignoring the shape of the distribution is a good idea.