Legality as a Career Harm Assessment Heuristic

By Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-03-26T11:56 (+18)

This is a crosspost, probably from LessWrong. Try viewing it there.

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James Herbert @ 2024-03-26T14:32 (+11)

I think 80k have the best article on this subject and I don’t think you referred to it in the above? If I’ve interpreted your post and their article correctly, I think they’re more restrictive than you are here.

Said 80k article: https://80000hours.org/articles/harmful-career/

Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-03-26T15:43 (+2)

Thanks for linking that one! In drafting this the two 80k articles I found were the two older ones I linked above: What Are The 10 Most Harmful Jobs and Show Me the Harm. Is It Ever OK to Take a Harmful Job in Order to do More Good? is a much more detailed article, and I wish I'd seen it before writing this!

(I'm not sure why I didn't find it before -- looking now it's in the top few results for most reasonable searches)

James Herbert @ 2024-03-27T11:47 (+1)

Aha yes I saw that you'd linked to those two older ones! Given that you had, I was surprised you'd missed this one :)