Even addressed problems can be addressed inefficiently
This is a good generalization to make from the climate change post last month. I argued in a comment that while climate action is well-funded as a category, I knew of a specific intervention that seems important, easily tractable & neglected. We can probably find similar niches in other well-funded areas.
I was increasingly seeing a movement in Foundation World towards better frameworks around understanding and reporting on net impact. While EA takes this idea to an extreme I didn’t understand why this community needed to be so removed from the conversations (and access to capital) that were simultaneously happening in other parts of the social sector.
I suppose EA grew from a different group of people with a different mindset than traditional charities, so I wouldn’t expect connections to exist between EA and other nonprofits (assuming this is a synonym for “the social sector”) until people step forward to create connections. Might we need liasons focused full time on bridging this gap?
At the beginning of the curve, down and to the left, we see that there is a smaller amount of capital circulating through approaches that aren’t that effective.
This is a good generalization to make from the climate change post last month. I argued in a comment that while climate action is well-funded as a category, I knew of a specific intervention that seems important, easily tractable & neglected. We can probably find similar niches in other well-funded areas.
I suppose EA grew from a different group of people with a different mindset than traditional charities, so I wouldn’t expect connections to exist between EA and other nonprofits (assuming this is a synonym for “the social sector”) until people step forward to create connections. Might we need liasons focused full time on bridging this gap?
On the far left, interventions can have negative value.