Cause areas: Unfortunately we couldn’t include everything. One of the core tenets of effective altruism is making difficult calls about cause prioritization, and these will always be contentious. We had to make those calls as we decided what to include. Our current best guess is that we should be focusing our efforts on a variety of different attempts to improve the long-term future, and this explains the calls that we made in the handbook.
Career paths: You’re right, I’ll make some changes to make clear that this is cause focused, and point people to 80,000 Hours for career focused advice.
Sorry that the article is not so helpful for non-Americans. Unfortunately this varies quite a bit between countries, and we couldn’t cover them all.
That’s a good point, I’ll consider changing/adding those books.
That’s another good point. I might include another section at the end on criticisms.
Thanks for pointing that out, we’ll fix that.
Cause areas: Unfortunately we couldn’t include everything. One of the core tenets of effective altruism is making difficult calls about cause prioritization, and these will always be contentious. We had to make those calls as we decided what to include. Our current best guess is that we should be focusing our efforts on a variety of different attempts to improve the long-term future, and this explains the calls that we made in the handbook.
Career paths: You’re right, I’ll make some changes to make clear that this is cause focused, and point people to 80,000 Hours for career focused advice.
Sorry that the article is not so helpful for non-Americans. Unfortunately this varies quite a bit between countries, and we couldn’t cover them all.
That’s a good point, I’ll consider changing/adding those books.
That’s another good point. I might include another section at the end on criticisms.