Another way of thinking about this is that in an overdetermined environment it seems like there would be a point at which the impact of EA movement building will be “causing a person to join EA sooner” instead of “adding another person to EA” (which is the current basis for evaluating EA movement building impact), which would be much less valuable.
From my point of view, I can’t tell that EA wont be a distraction from already altruist and effective people in all cases, especially now as there are more people than direct-enough projects.
Another way of thinking about this is that in an overdetermined environment it seems like there would be a point at which the impact of EA movement building will be “causing a person to join EA sooner” instead of “adding another person to EA” (which is the current basis for evaluating EA movement building impact), which would be much less valuable.
From my point of view, I can’t tell that EA wont be a distraction from already altruist and effective people in all cases, especially now as there are more people than direct-enough projects.