I basically agree with your comment, but wanted to emphasize the part I disagree with:
EA says to follow the importance-tractability-crowdedness framework, and allocate funding to the most effective causes.
EA is about prioritising in order to (try to) do the most good. The ITN framework is just a heuristic for that, which may very well be wrong in many places; and funding is just one of the resources we can use.
I claim that the ITC framework is not just a heuristic, but captures precisely what we mean by “do the most good”. And I agree, ‘funding’ should be interpreted broadly to include all EA resources (eg. money, labor hours, personal connections, etc).
I basically agree with your comment, but wanted to emphasize the part I disagree with:
EA is about prioritising in order to (try to) do the most good. The ITN framework is just a heuristic for that, which may very well be wrong in many places; and funding is just one of the resources we can use.
I claim that the ITC framework is not just a heuristic, but captures precisely what we mean by “do the most good”. And I agree, ‘funding’ should be interpreted broadly to include all EA resources (eg. money, labor hours, personal connections, etc).