I agree that EA can’t be for everyone and I don’t think it should try to be, but I personally don’t think that cause neutrality is EA’s unique selling point or the main thing it brings to the table, although I do understand that there are different approaches to EA.
To your second bullet point, I can’t think of an area where it’s more difficult to measure impact quantitatively and definitely than longtermism.
I agree that longtermist impact isn’t really measurable, but this makes it hard for me reconcile cause neutrality with longtermism rather than feel like rigid cause neutrality would not have the effect I stated.
I agree that EA can’t be for everyone and I don’t think it should try to be, but I personally don’t think that cause neutrality is EA’s unique selling point or the main thing it brings to the table, although I do understand that there are different approaches to EA.
I agree that longtermist impact isn’t really measurable, but this makes it hard for me reconcile cause neutrality with longtermism rather than feel like rigid cause neutrality would not have the effect I stated.