There isn’t a hard cutoff, but one relevant boundary is when you can ignore the other issue for practical purposes. At 10-100x differences, then other factors like personal fit or finding an unusually good opportunity can offset differences in cause effectiveness. At, say 10,000x, they can’t.
Sometimes people also suggest that e.g. existential risk reduction is ‘astronomically’ more effective than other causes (e.g. 10^10 times), but I don’t agree with that for a lot of reasons.
There isn’t a hard cutoff, but one relevant boundary is when you can ignore the other issue for practical purposes. At 10-100x differences, then other factors like personal fit or finding an unusually good opportunity can offset differences in cause effectiveness. At, say 10,000x, they can’t.
Sometimes people also suggest that e.g. existential risk reduction is ‘astronomically’ more effective than other causes (e.g. 10^10 times), but I don’t agree with that for a lot of reasons.
Got it—thanks for taking the time to respond!