Comment on Questions about Effective Altruism in academia (RAQ)

Diego Caleiro · 2015-05-27 · EA Forum

Biological Anthropology, with an adviser whose latest book is in philosophy of mind, the next book on information theory, the previous book on - of all things - biological anthropology, and most of his career was as a semioticist and neuroscientist. My previous adviser was a physicist in the philosophy of physics who turned into a philosopher of mind. My main sources of inspiration are Bostrom and Russell, who defy field borders. So I'm basically studying whatever you convince me makes sense in the intersection of interestingly complex and useful for the world. Except for math, code and decision theory, which are not my comparative advantage, specially not among EAs.

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