It’s definitely true diversity of backgrounds is important and am glad there’s people taking it into consideration in their career choices, but I don’t think in this case it’s likely to be a strong enough reason to not apply to an EA org.
There’s ~100 people working at EA orgs; whereas there’s thousands of dedicated EAs, and tens of thousands of people very interested in it. So the vast majority of EAs are not working at EA organisations, so the impact in terms of reduced diversity of one extra person going to work at an EA org is small. (Whereas if you’re a good fit for an EA org, that could be very high impact job).
The exception is if you’re doing something very few other EAs are doing that would be valuable for the community to learn more about.
There’s 1000 GWWC members, and around 5000 people making large donations to GiveWell recommended charities. TLYCS has more members too. Total attendees of EA Global was about 1000, and more than that applied.
In terms of interested people, GWWC, 80k and GiveWell all have well over 100k unique web views per year.
I wouldn’t assume that the people making large donations to GiveWell charities or TLYCS’ members are EAs are dedicated EAs. Equally I wouldn’t say there are tens of thousands of people very interested in EA on the basis of unique website views (do the figures you gave refer to visits or visitors?)
It’s definitely true diversity of backgrounds is important and am glad there’s people taking it into consideration in their career choices, but I don’t think in this case it’s likely to be a strong enough reason to not apply to an EA org.
There’s ~100 people working at EA orgs; whereas there’s thousands of dedicated EAs, and tens of thousands of people very interested in it. So the vast majority of EAs are not working at EA organisations, so the impact in terms of reduced diversity of one extra person going to work at an EA org is small. (Whereas if you’re a good fit for an EA org, that could be very high impact job).
The exception is if you’re doing something very few other EAs are doing that would be valuable for the community to learn more about.
What are you basing these estimates on? I’d be interested to find out what the best estimates of them that we have are.
There’s 1000 GWWC members, and around 5000 people making large donations to GiveWell recommended charities. TLYCS has more members too. Total attendees of EA Global was about 1000, and more than that applied.
In terms of interested people, GWWC, 80k and GiveWell all have well over 100k unique web views per year.
I wouldn’t assume that the people making large donations to GiveWell charities or TLYCS’ members are EAs are dedicated EAs. Equally I wouldn’t say there are tens of thousands of people very interested in EA on the basis of unique website views (do the figures you gave refer to visits or visitors?)
‘Unique’ refers to visitors I believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_visitor