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Career Choice: Becoming a Researcher in a Non-EA-Priority Field vs Founding Tech Startup?

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The candidate organization 'Career Choice' is not a real entity but a fictional prompt describing an Engineering + math graduate's dilemma between two career paths: becoming a professor/researcher in robotics working on mainstream technical problems like zero-shot learning, or founding 'low-sophistication' hard-tech startups with products that are not extremely technically sophisticated. The source text indicates the individual is struggling to determine which path would maximize impact, explicitly noting they are not primarily focused on robotics or AI safety but rather general robotics capab

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EA Forum
Posted
7/2/2026

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