That’s one way to see it, but I thought that ideally you’re supposed to keep considering all the possible “interventions” you can personally do to help moral patients. That is, if the most effective cause that matches your skills (and is neglected, etc etc) changes, you’re supposed to switch.
In practice that does not happen much, because skills and experience in one area are most useful in the same area, and because re-thinking your career constantly is tiring and even depressing; but it could be that way.
If it was that way, people who have decided on their cause area (for the next say, 5 years) should still call themselves EAs.
That’s one way to see it, but I thought that ideally you’re supposed to keep considering all the possible “interventions” you can personally do to help moral patients. That is, if the most effective cause that matches your skills (and is neglected, etc etc) changes, you’re supposed to switch.
In practice that does not happen much, because skills and experience in one area are most useful in the same area, and because re-thinking your career constantly is tiring and even depressing; but it could be that way.
If it was that way, people who have decided on their cause area (for the next say, 5 years) should still call themselves EAs.