As an aside, I wonder if you (and OP) mean a different thing by “cause impartial” than I do. I interpret “cause impartial” as “I will do whatever actions maximize the most impact (subject to personal constraints), regardless of cause area.” Whereas I think some people take it to mean a more freeform approach to cause selection that’s more like “Oh I don’t care what job I do as long as it has the “EA” stamp?” (maybe/probably I’m strawmanning here).
I think that’s a fair point. I normally mean the former (the impact maximising one) but in this context was probably reading it in the context OP used it more like that later (the EA stamp one). Good to clarify what was meant here, sorry for any confusion.
I feel like this isn’t the definition being used here, but when I use cause neutral, I mean what you describe, and when use cause impartial I mean something like and intervention that will lift all boats without respect to cause.
As an aside, I wonder if you (and OP) mean a different thing by “cause impartial” than I do. I interpret “cause impartial” as “I will do whatever actions maximize the most impact (subject to personal constraints), regardless of cause area.” Whereas I think some people take it to mean a more freeform approach to cause selection that’s more like “Oh I don’t care what job I do as long as it has the “EA” stamp?” (maybe/probably I’m strawmanning here).
I think that’s a fair point. I normally mean the former (the impact maximising one) but in this context was probably reading it in the context OP used it more like that later (the EA stamp one). Good to clarify what was meant here, sorry for any confusion.
I feel like this isn’t the definition being used here, but when I use cause neutral, I mean what you describe, and when use cause impartial I mean something like and intervention that will lift all boats without respect to cause.
Thanks! That’s helpful.