I expect 10 people donating 10% of their time to be less effective than 1 person using 100% of their time because you don’t get to reap the benefits of learning for the 10% people [emphasize mine]
“benefits of learning” doesn’t feel like the only reason, or even the primary reason, why I expect full-time EA work to be much more impactful than part-time EA work, controlling for individual factors. To me, network/coordination costs seem much higher. E.g. it’s very hard to manage a team of volunteer researchers or run an org where people volunteer 4h/week on average, and presumably less consistently.
“benefits of learning” doesn’t feel like the only reason, or even the primary reason, why I expect full-time EA work to be much more impactful than part-time EA work, controlling for individual factors. To me, network/coordination costs seem much higher. E.g. it’s very hard to manage a team of volunteer researchers or run an org where people volunteer 4h/week on average, and presumably less consistently.