Sorry, I should have been more mindful of how the brevity of my comment might come off. I didn’t mean to suggest the question doesn’t come down to what’s most cost-effective, which I agree it does. I was trying to point to the explanation for my differing attitudes to the priority of mental health when thinking the cause area of making the ea community more effective vs. the cause area of present people’s wellbeing more generally, which I’d guess is also the primary explanation for other people’s differing attitudes, which is: debilitating and easily treatable physical illnesses are not that common among EAs, which is why they aren’t a high priority for helping the EA community be more effective.
Thanks for clarifying! I think our misunderstanding comes from different framings: EA meta/infrastructure v. global health; within global health, MH v. disease/poverty alleviation. I agree with you and calebp on the former.
Sorry, I should have been more mindful of how the brevity of my comment might come off. I didn’t mean to suggest the question doesn’t come down to what’s most cost-effective, which I agree it does. I was trying to point to the explanation for my differing attitudes to the priority of mental health when thinking the cause area of making the ea community more effective vs. the cause area of present people’s wellbeing more generally, which I’d guess is also the primary explanation for other people’s differing attitudes, which is: debilitating and easily treatable physical illnesses are not that common among EAs, which is why they aren’t a high priority for helping the EA community be more effective.
Thanks for clarifying! I think our misunderstanding comes from different framings: EA meta/infrastructure v. global health; within global health, MH v. disease/poverty alleviation. I agree with you and calebp on the former.