Hey Jacob!

I think it depends on your views, mostly on AI. A lot of AI folks are in a sprint right now to get things done before AI becomes too powerful to affect. If that's your view, then likely further education won't be the best shout, since adding two - six years to the start of your professional life before you get stuck in might mean missing the boat. 

However, if that isn't your view, and you have reason not to be as concerned about AI, then I'd guess the answer would depend a lot on your cause prioritisation, and what you're best at. Sorry I can't be more specific, I'm not a career advisor :)

Welcome Alex! LMK if you have any Qs about the Forum. 

Hey Amy! Welcome to the Forum. 

My top advice on getting started is to pick a post from the EA Forum's digest every week (or from the featured homepage), and read it. You'll pick up the lingo pretty quick. An optional extra bit of homework is to leave a comment either continuing the analysis or asking a thoughtful question. 

Welcome Serena! Great to have you here. Let me know if you have any questions I might be able to help with :)

Welcome Subham! Let me know if you have any questions about EA, or the Forum. 

Sounds awesome Nii! Toby Ord wrote about the potential of optimising remittances years ago.
Interested to see this being worked on more!

After the initial experiment period, we've decided to keep the featured page.

One of the key graphs in making this decision is below:
 

Now that the featured page is likely to stick around long term, I'd like to start collecting ideas for V2^[1]. Do you use the page? Do you pointedly not use the page? I'd love to get any and all feedback, in the comments here, or via this form. 

Please share small things like aesthetic tweaks as well as larger issues such as a disagreement on the kind of posts that get featured, or how featuring is done. Happy to answer questions too. 

1. ^{^}

   I.e., the current version is a prototype, and I'm ready to do a full redesign if necessary. Because of some protracted OOO I might have to take soon - V2 might land near the end of September, or even early October. 

I'm curating this post. It's a great summary of some under-discussed research, and it has the potential to kick off a very valuable conversation (which we are seeing the start of - thanks jackva). I'd love to see more of an in depth comparison of investments in climate mitigation vs global health vs economic growth, especially accounting for more funding coming to global health. This post is a great start. Thanks Dan!

Award explanation: I'm awarding this comment from Jim although I could have awarded many of his others - he's bringing loads of value in his comments this week, de-confusing conversations and responding to posts with helpful clarifying questions. Thanks Jim!

Since we've got so many good entries to the Cluelessness Critiques Competition, I'm currently planning not to feature any of them (even those that would otherwise qualify). This'll mean that you can escape the cluelessness conversation by toggling to the featured page.

Alternatively, on the 'new and upvoted' page, you can customise your feed to hide the Cluelessness Critiques Week tag.