I agree that a lot of EAs seem to make this mistake but I don’t think the issue is with the neglectedness measure, ime people often incorrectly scope the area they are analysing and fail to notice that that specific area can be highly neglected whilst also being tractable and important even if the wider area it’s part of is not very neglected.
For example, working on information security in USG is imo not very neglected but working on standards for datacentres that train frontier LMs is.
I agree that a lot of EAs seem to make this mistake but I don’t think the issue is with the neglectedness measure, ime people often incorrectly scope the area they are analysing and fail to notice that that specific area can be highly neglected whilst also being tractable and important even if the wider area it’s part of is not very neglected.
For example, working on information security in USG is imo not very neglected but working on standards for datacentres that train frontier LMs is.