I suggest that a better definition would be: “How many people, or dollars, are currently being dedicated to this particular solution?”
Ultimately, I think this is just a band-aid solution to the fundamental problem of the INT framework: as I and others have written elsewhere, the INT framework is just a heuristic for thinking about overall cause areas; it is invalid (or prone to mislead, or inefficient) when it comes to evaluating specific decisions.
Ultimately, I think this is just a band-aid solution to the fundamental problem of the INT framework: as I and others have written elsewhere, the INT framework is just a heuristic for thinking about overall cause areas; it is invalid (or prone to mislead, or inefficient) when it comes to evaluating specific decisions.
In contrast, I’ve spent a sizable amount of time developing an alternative framework which I think is actually reliable for evaluating specific decisions, here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gwQNdY6Pzr6DF9HKK/the-coils-framework-for-decision-analysis-a-shortened-intro