I agree that collections of “we investigated a possible intervention/focus area and decided not to go for it for XYZ reasons” could be a really useful resource.
It’s also probably worth emphasizing that there aren’t causes that are universally rejected by EA as a community or movement. (As you say, this might be organization-specific: some organizations will have decided to focus on some “causes”—specific risks, or specific philosophies or approaches to improving the world—over others.)
I don’t have a good answer to this, but I will say that the following two tags could have useful or relevant materials for approaching these questions:
I agree that collections of “we investigated a possible intervention/focus area and decided not to go for it for XYZ reasons” could be a really useful resource.
It’s also probably worth emphasizing that there aren’t causes that are universally rejected by EA as a community or movement. (As you say, this might be organization-specific: some organizations will have decided to focus on some “causes”—specific risks, or specific philosophies or approaches to improving the world—over others.)
I don’t have a good answer to this, but I will say that the following two tags could have useful or relevant materials for approaching these questions:
Cause candidates
Less-discussed causes
(Not answering on behalf of the librarian program.)