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tl:dr Telling people working on near term causes isn't very effective makes it less fun for them to work on those causes. This could be a problem if they can't convince themselves to work on long term causes.
My impression is the community as a whole or at least prominent figures/organizations in the EA movement have shifted their focus in the last couple of years. They have more or less explicitly said that working on x- or s-risks is much more important than working on global poverty etc. See for example Wills last TED talk, the 80,000 Hours job... (read more)
Do you have any thoughts on the fact that more and more EAs now focus on the long-term future instead of eg global health and development?
Nothing particularly insightful, I’m afraid. I have always been a fan of the portfolio approach to supporting charities given there are many good charities doing important work so if there are a variety of views and interests within the EA movement, that seems like a good thing to me. At AMF, we have a significant gap in funding and of course we would like as many as possible to support what we do so that means we have to continue to make the case that we are worthy of support whilst understanding donors will wish to put their support, financial or otherwise, in many different areas.