Does the high difficulty of getting a job at an EA organization mean we should stop promoting EA? (What are the EA movement’s current bottlenecks?)
Promoting donations or Earnign to Give seems fine. I think we should stop promoting ‘EA is talent constrained’. There is a sense in which EA is ‘talent constrained’. But the current messaging around ‘EA is talent constrained’ consistently misleads people, even very informed people such as the OP and some of the experts who gave him advice. On the other hand EA can certainly absorb much more money. Many smaller orgs are certainly funding constrained. And at a minimum people can donate to Give Directly if the other giving oppurtunities are filled.
Promoting donations or Earnign to Give seems fine. I think we should stop promoting ‘EA is talent constrained’. There is a sense in which EA is ‘talent constrained’. But the current messaging around ‘EA is talent constrained’ consistently misleads people, even very informed people such as the OP and some of the experts who gave him advice. On the other hand EA can certainly absorb much more money. Many smaller orgs are certainly funding constrained. And at a minimum people can donate to Give Directly if the other giving oppurtunities are filled.
Couldn’t agree more!