By diversity do you mean diversity of cultural origin and gender, or diversity of career focus, or both?
I’d say my view is that the optimal distribution of career focuses would have more people working on less popular EA causes (eg—democracy / IDM, climate change, supervolcanoes, other stuff on 80K’s lists) than we have now. I don’t have a particular cause area in mind which EA is entirely ignoring.
No, I mean roughly the total number of cause areas.
It’s a bit different to total number of causes as each cause area adds more diversity if it is uncorrelated from other cause areas. Maybe a better operationalisation is ‘total amount of the cause area space covered’.
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By diversity do you mean diversity of cultural origin and gender, or diversity of career focus, or both?
I’d say my view is that the optimal distribution of career focuses would have more people working on less popular EA causes (eg—democracy / IDM, climate change, supervolcanoes, other stuff on 80K’s lists) than we have now. I don’t have a particular cause area in mind which EA is entirely ignoring.
No, I mean roughly the total number of cause areas.
It’s a bit different to total number of causes as each cause area adds more diversity if it is uncorrelated from other cause areas. Maybe a better operationalisation is ‘total amount of the cause area space covered’.