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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/11/2012 07:47, ddraig wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 November 2012 02:46, spike <span
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span>yeah,
I've heard this my entire life: "if you're so smart,
why aren't you rich?" Well, because it's boring, and
the sort of people you meet along the way tend to be
horrible, that's why.<br>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dwayne,
eventually I thought of a good retort to that
question, If you’re so smart, why ain’t ya rich: If
YOU’RE so smart, how do you know I ain’t rich?</span></p>
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Oh, no, my answer has always been: define rich. I have spent
most of my adult life doing exactly what I wanted, every day,
without having to worry about food and survival, with the
freedom to spend my time however I wish. This is the end-result
of being rich throughout history, as far as I can tell.<br>
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Exactly. A bit like the parable about the fisherman and the banker,
where the banker sketches out how the fisherman can build up his
business so that he would become independently wealthy and spend his
time as he wants... fishing and being with his family, which was
what he is already doing. <br>
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I was interviewed by people from 80 Thousand Hours today (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://80000hours.org/">http://80000hours.org/</a> ). This is an organisation that tries to
figure out how to make one's career have maximum impact; a little
evidence-based planning before choosing it can make a huge
difference. The interesting aspect of their thinking is that
high-impact careers can both be relatively low-money careers where
you do something very useful (like life extension research, reducing
xrisk) and high-money careers where you give the money to the right
things. The neat thing is that if you plan things right, you will
find your life to be quite meaningful regardless of the amount of
money in your wallet at the end of the month. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University </pre>
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