Thank you for asking this! I’m afraid I don’t have any answers, but I also think that it would be great if EAs researched this question (and I’m happy Open Phil seems to be doing some of this). I also think that how ‘fighting racism’ or ‘US criminal justice reform’ compare against other cause areas on neglectedness, tractability and impact is somewhat beside the point. There is a huge amount of enthusiasm to tackle these problems at the moment, and people are eager to donate to organizations that combat them, but I’ve not seen much discussion or reflection on which are most effective. Most of these people would never be persuaded to donate to (e.g.) AI risk prevention or animal rights orgs, but they might be persuaded to donate to more-effective anti-racism/criminal-justice-reform organizations. If EAs can find out which orgs are more effective in this area, and promote them, that could create a lot of impact compared to the counterfactual.
Thank you for asking this! I’m afraid I don’t have any answers, but I also think that it would be great if EAs researched this question (and I’m happy Open Phil seems to be doing some of this). I also think that how ‘fighting racism’ or ‘US criminal justice reform’ compare against other cause areas on neglectedness, tractability and impact is somewhat beside the point. There is a huge amount of enthusiasm to tackle these problems at the moment, and people are eager to donate to organizations that combat them, but I’ve not seen much discussion or reflection on which are most effective. Most of these people would never be persuaded to donate to (e.g.) AI risk prevention or animal rights orgs, but they might be persuaded to donate to more-effective anti-racism/criminal-justice-reform organizations. If EAs can find out which orgs are more effective in this area, and promote them, that could create a lot of impact compared to the counterfactual.