I’m a freshman in college now, but a post or two analyzing the reasons for choosing an (expensive, high status) private college versus an (essentially free, low status) state college, or going to school in America versus Europe versus somewhere else, would have been immensely valuable to me a year ago.
This would belong on LessWrong because typical advice on this topic is either “follow your dreams, do what you love, everything will work out”, or “you’re an idiot to take on debt, if you can’t pay your own way through college you’re a lazy, entitled brat”.
A post describing how to make such a decision based on expected-value calculations, discussing value of information and college visits, and dissecting the research into the income effects of attending top colleges would be very nice.
(I could write such a post, if others think it would be of enough general interest).
I think it would be a good idea for a post, not just for the specifics but also because it would relate to making decisions which involve long range predictions.
From the upvotes I’m concluding it’s worthwhile to go ahead and write it: I agree it serves as a pretty decent example of applying rationality concepts for long-term decision making. It’ll have to wait a week until Thanksgiving Break, though.
I’m a freshman in college now, but a post or two analyzing the reasons for choosing an (expensive, high status) private college versus an (essentially free, low status) state college, or going to school in America versus Europe versus somewhere else, would have been immensely valuable to me a year ago.
This would belong on LessWrong because typical advice on this topic is either “follow your dreams, do what you love, everything will work out”, or “you’re an idiot to take on debt, if you can’t pay your own way through college you’re a lazy, entitled brat”.
A post describing how to make such a decision based on expected-value calculations, discussing value of information and college visits, and dissecting the research into the income effects of attending top colleges would be very nice.
(I could write such a post, if others think it would be of enough general interest).
I think it would be a good idea for a post, not just for the specifics but also because it would relate to making decisions which involve long range predictions.
From the upvotes I’m concluding it’s worthwhile to go ahead and write it: I agree it serves as a pretty decent example of applying rationality concepts for long-term decision making. It’ll have to wait a week until Thanksgiving Break, though.