I think this happened because the flow of money into EA has made the obligations to optimise cost-efficiency and to think counterfactually seem a lot weaker to many EAs. I don’t think the obligations are any weaker than they were—we should just have a slightly lower cost effectiveness bar for funding things than before.
To me, the most important issue that this (and other comments here) raises is that, as a community, we don’t yet have a good model of how an altruist who (rationally/altruistically) places a very high value on their time should actually act. Or, for that matter, how they shouldn’t.
To me, the most important issue that this (and other comments here) raises is that, as a community, we don’t yet have a good model of how an altruist who (rationally/altruistically) places a very high value on their time should actually act. Or, for that matter, how they shouldn’t.