My guess is that it’s something like “the impact of mitigating x-risks is probably orders of magnitude greater than public health interventions” (which might be what you meant by “unless you’re very optimistic about X-risk charities being effective”).
Agreed, although it feels like in that case we should be comparing ‘donating to X-risk organizations’ vs ‘working at X-risk organizations’. I think that by default I would assume that the money vs talent trade-off is similar at global health and X-risk organizations though.
My guess is that it’s something like “the impact of mitigating x-risks is probably orders of magnitude greater than public health interventions” (which might be what you meant by “unless you’re very optimistic about X-risk charities being effective”).
Agreed, although it feels like in that case we should be comparing ‘donating to X-risk organizations’ vs ‘working at X-risk organizations’. I think that by default I would assume that the money vs talent trade-off is similar at global health and X-risk organizations though.