Ah, I assumed the latter was a consequence of the former because they were in the same paragraph, my bad.
However, like Michael, I’m still a bit confused about the role neglectedness is playing in this analysis (and all other analyses). But don’t take that as criticism of your analysis. It often seems that neglectedness and tractability (and scale) are used as independent reasons to support a particular cause area or intervention, rather than that they are used as a coherent framework. It seems to me your argument would have been similarly strong if clean energy R&D was not neglected—if you could just show that additional spending would have big benefits.
Ah, I assumed the latter was a consequence of the former because they were in the same paragraph, my bad.
However, like Michael, I’m still a bit confused about the role neglectedness is playing in this analysis (and all other analyses). But don’t take that as criticism of your analysis. It often seems that neglectedness and tractability (and scale) are used as independent reasons to support a particular cause area or intervention, rather than that they are used as a coherent framework. It seems to me your argument would have been similarly strong if clean energy R&D was not neglected—if you could just show that additional spending would have big benefits.