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Risto_Saarelma comments on How has lesswrong changed your life? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 01 April 2015 10:52:41AM *  8 points [-]

I've learned that it's probably optimal to strive for the most high-earning high-productivity career you can accomplish and donate your extra income to effective altruism and that I'm not going to go and try to do that.

Comment author: Zubon 03 April 2015 02:41:17PM *  3 points [-]

There are other things to optimize, and Less Wrong would cheerfully endorse your optimizing for some combination of:

  • happiness
  • fun
  • production/creation that focuses on your comparative advantages

Someone needs to do those things that the high-earning people are paying for, and if you don't think you'd be happy with an earnings-optimized career, you might be that person.