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Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata.
Note on process: After having some version of this conversation several times and saying, “we should probably write about this publicly,” we took the less heroic route: we recorded one of our conversations, fed the transcript into an LLM, and then substantially revised the structure, substance, and framing ourselves. We will not be sharing the transcript, as it is in...
I gave an answer here:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vyYsM2AEwh5CJqjju/urgency-in-the-itn-framework?commentId=fSarqZDsh8FRt63xS
"I think what matters about urgency should be captured by a version of neglectedness that accounts for future resources that will otherwise be spent on the problem. If something is not urgent, we might not expect it to be neglected in the long run, as others will come to work on it. If urgent, there's a risk few will work on it in time."
(Excuse the formatting, on mobile.)