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So, which unguided self help app should I try?

Wow, nice! Thanks for sharing! That's great news!

Your reference 7 is titled "Effective Altruism's Growth Has Stalled", but that's not the title of the article, and a claim to that effect does not exist in the text.

Unfortunately I don't have any deep insight to offer. All things science have interested me since age 6, and when I first encountered chemistry in high school it seemed like the most interesting subject by far.

To get an idea of what you would like to do, it helps to try as many different things as possible. Job shadowing is good, but the closer you get to trying out the job itself, the better. Try to intern in any company that would take you.

If you have the financial means, it's much better to take a year or two off before college to figure out what you wa... (read more)

I'm no chemist, but I can imagine this kind of expertise being useful for vaccine production (maybe?)

Organic synthesis sadly is a bit too far from immunology to have much skill crossover. Though of course making an immunologist out of a chemist would be faster than out of a layperson.

We do quite often help universities and startups with research and clinical trials, so the net good from my work is still above average, I would hope.

Not that I think this is essential — it sounds like you're living your dream, and that's an extremely good reason to have a jo

I'm not saying it should be "suppressed", but that it should fall under similar regulations to normal money, to prevent abuse and fraud.

Cryptocurrency is a solution looking for a problem. Buying drugs is one of the only problems it's a significant improvement upon, everything else we can already do with normal money. I see no reason to believe it will ever account for more than 1% of the world's transactions.

And yes, if the monetary system is completely dysfunctional and a tool for stealing wealth from your citizens, like in Venezuela, then I guess internet money is better than normal money. In the case of Venezuela, Runescape money for example has been used for this same purpose.

>2) Smart individuals (or lucky early-adopters) can become, or have become quite rich by utilizing the enormous growth of the crypto market which certainly is transformative for the individuals in question

This is  called speculation, which you seem to be against. If you like the idea of your cryptocurrency being worth lots of dollars, you're not supporting the idea of crypto, but the idea of dollars.

>3) It has created a new eco-system in the technology/financial space, where money and ideas flow quite differently than before

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