The thought you ascribe to most EAs (which I think is very likely accurate) is something like this: if I donate now, it will just mean I divert money from what I think is a highly effective charity to GWWC, and then another EA who would have donated to GWWC later on will instead donate to another charity that EA thinks is highly effective.
So the cost of donating to GWWC seems to be that money goes from your favorite charity to some other EA’s favorite charity, and the benefit is that GWWC spends less time fundraising. Perhaps EAs are just thinking about this wrong—why should we think our favorite charity is that much more effective than some other prospective GWWC donor (or at least so much more effective that it is worth wasting GWWC staff’s time)?
The thought you ascribe to most EAs (which I think is very likely accurate) is something like this: if I donate now, it will just mean I divert money from what I think is a highly effective charity to GWWC, and then another EA who would have donated to GWWC later on will instead donate to another charity that EA thinks is highly effective.
So the cost of donating to GWWC seems to be that money goes from your favorite charity to some other EA’s favorite charity, and the benefit is that GWWC spends less time fundraising. Perhaps EAs are just thinking about this wrong—why should we think our favorite charity is that much more effective than some other prospective GWWC donor (or at least so much more effective that it is worth wasting GWWC staff’s time)?