Re: Living a good life

From: Jason Joel Thompson (jasonjthompson@home.com)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 19:56:16 MDT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Fabulich" <daniel.fabulich@yale.edu>

> Well, of the career choices I can think of that are available to me,
> I'd say that the most likely to increase my survival (and, perhaps,
> long term happiness,) is work in biomedical engineering; either by
> doing actual research or going into biomedical engineering patent law
> and reinvesting much of my earnings. Next is probably computer
> science/programming. Philosophy ranks dead last. :)

Making lots of money is probably one of the best ways to increase your odds
of survivability.

I'm not so sure how to quantify the rest.

Philosophy certainly offers an end run play-- you can write about the topic,
discuss the big issues with the major players, get yourself known as an
immortalist 'guru,' etc.

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