EA priorities in expectation maximise some objective function.
My question is why is global education not an objective function that we are seeking to maximise?
This question is slightly misstated by me, the question I intended to ask is here
Edit:
Secondly even if no interventions can be found for say global health, it would remain as a goal, value, objective function.
I find the absence of education at the top to be puzzling. Why is the objective function “Global health and development” and not “Global Education, Health and Development”? Even if one cant find interventions the goals are statements of what we find valuable.
Most effective at the current margin!
We can generalise the argument to include other desiderata like neglectedness:
1) EA priorities in expectation maximise some objective function.
2) Relatively few things maximise each objective function, and there are relatively few objective functions.
3) Hence relatively few things will be EA priorities.
My question is why is global education not an objective function that we are seeking to maximise?
This question is slightly misstated by me, the question I intended to ask is here
Edit: Secondly even if no interventions can be found for say global health, it would remain as a goal, value, objective function.
I find the absence of education at the top to be puzzling. Why is the objective function “Global health and development” and not “Global Education, Health and Development”? Even if one cant find interventions the goals are statements of what we find valuable.