It’s not ignoring them, it’s selecting interventions which look more robustly good, about which we aren’t so clueless.
Is that idea that once these longtermist interventions are fully-funded (diminishing returns), then we start looking at shortterm interventions?
I think the claim is that we don’t know that any short-termist interventions are good in expectation, because of cluelessness.
For what it’s worth, I don’t agree with this claim; this depends on your specific beliefs about the long-term effects of interventions.
It’s not ignoring them, it’s selecting interventions which look more robustly good, about which we aren’t so clueless.
Is that idea that once these longtermist interventions are fully-funded (diminishing returns), then we start looking at shortterm interventions?
I think the claim is that we don’t know that any short-termist interventions are good in expectation, because of cluelessness.
For what it’s worth, I don’t agree with this claim; this depends on your specific beliefs about the long-term effects of interventions.