This might shift the balance of how much EAs are in different fields. Perhaps it makes more sense to have more people in a more widely acknowledged-as-effective field.
This reduces the incentive of people to think about cause prioritization.
This is probably a piece of wrong advice for people in their early or middle career, and may cause long-term problems if understood poorly
Obvious problems:
This will reduce motivation.
This might shift the balance of how much EAs are in different fields. Perhaps it makes more sense to have more people in a more widely acknowledged-as-effective field.
This reduces the incentive of people to think about cause prioritization.
This is probably a piece of wrong advice for people in their early or middle career, and may cause long-term problems if understood poorly