Petter comments on Why "Changing the World" is a Horrible Phrase - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Petter 25 December 2014 03:40:43PM 3 points [-]

80,000 Hours (your employer?) has the following as its web page title:

“How to make a difference with your career”

and writes on the front page

“If you want to make the world a better place…”

To me, those are synonyms to “changing the world,” for the purpose of career description.

Comment author: ozziegooen 25 December 2014 06:25:09PM 4 points [-]

My previous employer. I still have a lot of respect for them, but do not directly agree with everything they do. Also, I realize that while I would prefer that these things were understood, in a world in which they are not understood, the terminology has some marketing privileges.

80,000 Hours does go far beyond the phrase, as I mentioned in the end. They use it as marketing terminology and follow it up with a pretty specific philosophy. Most groups that use this phrase don't do that.