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EA is not prioritising causes well #1

Open paul-crowe opened 2 years ago

paul-crowe commented 2 years ago

Example: RCT development will never scale

Summary: "A top priority for effective altruists should be to assess the best way to increase human welfare outside of the constraints of randomista development, i.e. allowing intervention that have not or cannot be tested by RCTs"

Date: 1/16/2020

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paul-crowe commented 2 years ago

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paul-crowe commented 2 years ago

Example: EA needs to do more cause prioritisation work

Summary: "Many effective altruists donate to GiveWell’s top charities. All three of these charities work in global health. Is that because GiveWell knows that global health is the highest-leverage cause? No. It’s because it was the only one with enough data to say anything very useful about." Global health is supported because that's the only area with any real data to support it being high-impact.

Date: 12/2/2013

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paul-crowe commented 2 years ago

Example: OpenPhil blew $200m on criminal justice

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paul-crowe commented 2 years ago

Example: Needs more dedicated effort looking for new causes and ideas

Summary: "EA seems to have picked all the low-hanging fruit and doesn't know what to do with itself now."

Date: 7/2/2017

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paul-crowe commented 2 years ago

Example: Worldview diversification seems underexplored

Summary: EA is too limited to the same old causes of animals, AI and world poverty.

Date: 1/26/2018

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