In my view, there’s a further consideration in favour of your suggestion: by making non-optimal charities/capital marginally more effective, we’re spreading the “effectiveness meme”.
By opening people’s eyes to the magic of improving effectiveness, we’re putting them on a track towards further effectiveness improvements. Once they see how they can marginally improve effectiveness, they might ask themselves “Why not go further, and improve effectiveness ever more”—and this is one route into an EA-style mindset.
In my view, there’s a further consideration in favour of your suggestion: by making non-optimal charities/capital marginally more effective, we’re spreading the “effectiveness meme”.
By opening people’s eyes to the magic of improving effectiveness, we’re putting them on a track towards further effectiveness improvements. Once they see how they can marginally improve effectiveness, they might ask themselves “Why not go further, and improve effectiveness ever more”—and this is one route into an EA-style mindset.