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    • Which careers let you contribute most?
    • Some solutions are far more effective than others
    • Our list of high-impact careers
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    • What is career capital?
    • How much to explore?
    • Coordination and impact
    • Balancing impact and doing what you love
    • Aim higher: a rational case for dreaming big
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    • Preventing an AI-related catastrophe
    • Catastrophic pandemics
    • Building effective altruism
    • Global priorities research
    • Nuclear war
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    • Great power conflict
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    • China-related AI safety and governance
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