Thanks for posting this. I don’t think the usual view is that “additional effort is wasted” on non-neglected issues. It’s that there is a finite amount of time, money, resources, emotional bandwidth, and other stuff—so the value of additional effort for the non-neglected cause has to be weighed against commiting that effort to a more neglected cause.
Given that, I would be looking to identify why there is solid reason to believe “additional support” of the sort EAs could provide “could meaningfully accelerate impact” in a specific non-neglected cause area. I think there could be situations in which that’s the case, but I don’t think assertions about the possible effects of generalized support on non-neglected causes generally really move the needle for me.
Thanks for posting this. I don’t think the usual view is that “additional effort is wasted” on non-neglected issues. It’s that there is a finite amount of time, money, resources, emotional bandwidth, and other stuff—so the value of additional effort for the non-neglected cause has to be weighed against commiting that effort to a more neglected cause.
Given that, I would be looking to identify why there is solid reason to believe “additional support” of the sort EAs could provide “could meaningfully accelerate impact” in a specific non-neglected cause area. I think there could be situations in which that’s the case, but I don’t think assertions about the possible effects of generalized support on non-neglected causes generally really move the needle for me.