But if there’s a single issue in the world we should engage with deeply instead of outsourcing, isn’t it this one? Isn’t this pretty much the most important question in the world from the perspective of an effective altruist?
It’s definitely good if people engage with it deeply if they make the results of their engagement public (I don’t think most people can outperform the community/the wider non-EA world of experts on their own in terms of optimizing their own decisions.) But the question just asked whether it is possible to rationally set priorities without doing a lot of philosophical work yourself, not whether that was the best thing to do.
But if there’s a single issue in the world we should engage with deeply instead of outsourcing, isn’t it this one? Isn’t this pretty much the most important question in the world from the perspective of an effective altruist?
It’s definitely good if people engage with it deeply if they make the results of their engagement public (I don’t think most people can outperform the community/the wider non-EA world of experts on their own in terms of optimizing their own decisions.) But the question just asked whether it is possible to rationally set priorities without doing a lot of philosophical work yourself, not whether that was the best thing to do.