I think dollars are much more fungible than careers, so for most people, you should move your donations away from global health if and only if you believe that marginal donations to other charities are more cost-effective. “Neglectedness” is just a herustic, and not a very strong one.
Hmm, that’s fair—crowdedness for giving is different from career path, in that I should be thinking about the marginal impact of a dollar for the former rather than overall field neglectedness.
I think this makes me less certain about my reallocation because I believe very strongly in the cost-effectiveness of global health charities, although I’m also wary that that is not solely due to true cost-effectiveness (due to cost-effectiveness being harder to measure across cause areas) and that most people think that way—hence the funding gap.
I think dollars are much more fungible than careers, so for most people, you should move your donations away from global health if and only if you believe that marginal donations to other charities are more cost-effective. “Neglectedness” is just a herustic, and not a very strong one.
Hmm, that’s fair—crowdedness for giving is different from career path, in that I should be thinking about the marginal impact of a dollar for the former rather than overall field neglectedness.
I think this makes me less certain about my reallocation because I believe very strongly in the cost-effectiveness of global health charities, although I’m also wary that that is not solely due to true cost-effectiveness (due to cost-effectiveness being harder to measure across cause areas) and that most people think that way—hence the funding gap.