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Career Choice: Becoming a Researcher in a Non-EA-Priority Field vs Founding Tech Startup?
Engineering + math graduate whose goal is to maximize impact. I am currently deciding between two career paths, but have been struggling a lot to determine which would be more impactful:Become a professor/researcher in robotics, working on mainstream technical problems such as zero-shot learning. (To be clear, I’m not