I agree 100% that the EA community’s efforts in areas like malaria and direct cash transfers are falling quite firmly within the ‘elimination of concrete evils’ camp. IIRC you differentiate between the philosophical foundations and actual practice of effective altruism in your essay. So even if most EA work currently is part of the aforementioned camp, the philosophical foundations might not actually imply this.
I agree 100% that the EA community’s efforts in areas like malaria and direct cash transfers are falling quite firmly within the ‘elimination of concrete evils’ camp. IIRC you differentiate between the philosophical foundations and actual practice of effective altruism in your essay. So even if most EA work currently is part of the aforementioned camp, the philosophical foundations might not actually imply this.