I’d still agree that we should factor in cooperation, but my intuition is then that it’s going to be a smaller consideration than neglect of future generations, so more about tilting things around the edges, and not being a jerk, rather than significantly changing the allocation.
For now, I don’t think any major changes in decisions should be made based on this. We don’t know enough about how difficult it would be to build cooperation and what the gains to cooperation would be. I guess the only concrete recommendation may be to more strongly emphasize the “not being a jerk” part of effective altruism (especially because that can often be in major conflict with the “maximize impact” part). Also I would argue that there’s a chance that cooperation could be very important and so it’s worth researching more.
For now, I don’t think any major changes in decisions should be made based on this. We don’t know enough about how difficult it would be to build cooperation and what the gains to cooperation would be. I guess the only concrete recommendation may be to more strongly emphasize the “not being a jerk” part of effective altruism (especially because that can often be in major conflict with the “maximize impact” part). Also I would argue that there’s a chance that cooperation could be very important and so it’s worth researching more.