One can imagine someone who hears promotion of the AMF but doesn’t grok effective altruism deciding that it means they should be researching Malaria. Even without such promotion, Malaria is a big-name disease and I wouldn’t be surprised at non-EAs ending up contributing to an oversupply of malaria researchers because they don’t realise that some disease that’s less of a big deal but has fewer people working on it might be better.
One can imagine someone who hears promotion of the AMF but doesn’t grok effective altruism deciding that it means they should be researching Malaria. Even without such promotion, Malaria is a big-name disease and I wouldn’t be surprised at non-EAs ending up contributing to an oversupply of malaria researchers because they don’t realise that some disease that’s less of a big deal but has fewer people working on it might be better.