The very vague definition of “Cause Area” is making it hard for me to think about meta EA. It feels like GPR is a cause area and so working on it would be direct impact work but I am not sure. Same goes for EA Movement building. Also, it starts getting trippy if we claim meta-EA is also a cause area!
Maybe we can clarify the definition for cause area within this meta EA framework?
Thanks for your comment, I think it’s a great point!
I think it depends on your level of analysis. I outline my thinking in the comment above for how I’m thinking about it for this post.
In most cases, it probably makes sense to separate out Global Priorities Research and EA Movement Building because practically the interventions can be very different (although there are some interesting areas they overlap—e.g. career advice research).
Also, there was a discussion on this you might find interesting.
The very vague definition of “Cause Area” is making it hard for me to think about meta EA. It feels like GPR is a cause area and so working on it would be direct impact work but I am not sure. Same goes for EA Movement building. Also, it starts getting trippy if we claim meta-EA is also a cause area!
Maybe we can clarify the definition for cause area within this meta EA framework?
Thanks for your comment, I think it’s a great point!
I think it depends on your level of analysis. I outline my thinking in the comment above for how I’m thinking about it for this post.
In most cases, it probably makes sense to separate out Global Priorities Research and EA Movement Building because practically the interventions can be very different (although there are some interesting areas they overlap—e.g. career advice research).
Also, there was a discussion on this you might find interesting.