Your figures sounds too high. Remember we are comparing the best arts charity, not the average arts charity to SCI. In order to make such a comparison, we’d have to write down believable impacts from arts and from SCI for a particular amount of money invested, then we’d actually be able to make this kind of comparison.
I’m not saying that I’m in favour of Effective Altruism engaging in domain-specific effective altruism, just that we would need a more nuanced comparison to evaluate this claim. Anyway, even if we were to loosen up EA, it seems that allowing arts to count as EA would be going too far, to the point of damaging our credibility.
Your figures sounds too high. Remember we are comparing the best arts charity, not the average arts charity to SCI. In order to make such a comparison, we’d have to write down believable impacts from arts and from SCI for a particular amount of money invested, then we’d actually be able to make this kind of comparison.
I’m not saying that I’m in favour of Effective Altruism engaging in domain-specific effective altruism, just that we would need a more nuanced comparison to evaluate this claim. Anyway, even if we were to loosen up EA, it seems that allowing arts to count as EA would be going too far, to the point of damaging our credibility.