To me wellbeing is the most exciting topic in EA GHD at the moment, because with some serious engagement from the kinds of players attending that workshop, it has the greatest potential to credibly upend the currently accepted wisdom in EA GHD. There are a lot of questions that you and others have been chipping away at for some time that many people assume are either solved or unlikely to yield field-altering results, and I think that impression is wrong!
I agree its fantastic, not only for Wellbeing itself, but also for disrupting the status quo. I hardly thing that even the problem of “DALYs” is solved though. Even the moral weights issue which plays into it will never be solved as such, Givewell’s piecemeal approach (which I absolutely love and think is a great way to do it) shows how tricky it is.
To me wellbeing is the most exciting topic in EA GHD at the moment, because with some serious engagement from the kinds of players attending that workshop, it has the greatest potential to credibly upend the currently accepted wisdom in EA GHD. There are a lot of questions that you and others have been chipping away at for some time that many people assume are either solved or unlikely to yield field-altering results, and I think that impression is wrong!
I agree its fantastic, not only for Wellbeing itself, but also for disrupting the status quo. I hardly thing that even the problem of “DALYs” is solved though. Even the moral weights issue which plays into it will never be solved as such, Givewell’s piecemeal approach (which I absolutely love and think is a great way to do it) shows how tricky it is.