EA is more concerned with capital allocation than LessWrong, so this doesn’t seem surprising.
Being a “top cause area” is basically synonymous with “put EA capital towards this thing.”
“What are the tractable interventions of [this particular cause]?” is a question that you can explore without making it about whether it’s one of the top causes overall.
At root, we’ll only want to explore tractable interventions in cause areas that are plausible candidates for EA capital allocation, so I don’t think this framing sidesteps the issue.
I didn’t write a top level post but I sketched out some of the relevant background ideas here. (I’m not sure if they answer your particular concerns, but you can ask more specific questions there if you have them)
EA is more concerned with capital allocation than LessWrong, so this doesn’t seem surprising.
Being a “top cause area” is basically synonymous with “put EA capital towards this thing.”
At root, we’ll only want to explore tractable interventions in cause areas that are plausible candidates for EA capital allocation, so I don’t think this framing sidesteps the issue.
I have more thoughts but it’s sufficiently off topic for this post that I’ll probably start a new thread about it.
Please do expand this onto a top level post if you are able to!
I didn’t write a top level post but I sketched out some of the relevant background ideas here. (I’m not sure if they answer your particular concerns, but you can ask more specific questions there if you have them)