…. But the number of people we need working on them should probably be more limited than the current trajectory ….
I’ll therefore ask much more specifically, what are the most intellectually interesting topics in Effective Altruism, and then I’ll suggest that we should be doing less work on them—and list a few concrete suggestions for how to do that.
I feel like the op was mostly talking about direct work. Even if they weren’t I think most of the impact that EA will have will eventually cash out as direct work so it would be a bit surprising if ‘EA attention’ and direct work were not very correlated AND we were losing a lot of impact because of problems in the attention bit and not the direct work bit.
I feel like the op was mostly talking about direct work. Even if they weren’t I think most of the impact that EA will have will eventually cash out as direct work so it would be a bit surprising if ‘EA attention’ and direct work were not very correlated AND we were losing a lot of impact because of problems in the attention bit and not the direct work bit.
“I feel like the op was mostly talking about direct work.”
No—see various other comment threads