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You’ll never regret choosing something you want to work on. Especially when what you want to work also makes money like energy or AI. Also, these fields are no

by d--b 8y ago

You’ll never regret choosing something you want to work on. Especially when what you want to work also makes money like energy or AI. Also, these fields are not evil or useless like weapon design or hedge funds. They are actually useful to society, so you feel like contributing to the general good. Don’t worry about healthcare, there are thousands of people who work on healthcare. And, if I may, if you did work on healthcare, your very own contribution to solving this problem would most likely be very small. Unless you somehow become the Elon Musk of healthcare... which you know, may or may not happen.

harias 8y ago
Why do you think Hedge Funds are useless or evil?
- Temasik 8y ago
  How does hedge fund add value to normal people?
- j2kun 8y ago
  The only good quality of a hedge fund is promoting "market efficiency." I can understand how most people don't buy that as an excuse for the havoc they can wreak.
masterjack 8y ago
Hedge funds can also be a good testbed for technologies, while “do good” companies can use it as an excuse to be bad on the inside. I am fascinated with the potential of large scale crowdsourcing in data science, and finance seems the most natural domain for this, which is why I’m now at Numerai.