works
Arden Koehler Problem areas beyond 80,000 Hours' current priorities online At 80,000 Hours we’ve generally focused on finding the most pressing issues and the best ways to address them. But even if some issue is ’the most pressing’—in the sense of being the highest impact thing for someone to work on if they could be equally successful at anything—it might easily not be the highest impact thing for many people to work on, because people have various talents, experience, and temperaments.

Problem areas beyond 80,000 Hours' current priorities

Arden Koehler

Effective Altruism Forum, June 22, 2020

Abstract

At 80,000 Hours we’ve generally focused on finding the most pressing issues and the best ways to address them. But even if some issue is ’the most pressing’—in the sense of being the highest impact thing for someone to work on if they could be equally successful at anything—it might easily not be the highest impact thing for many people to work on, because people have various talents, experience, and temperaments.

PDF

First page of PDF