I wonder why my reply has so many downvotes (-8 score) and no replies. This could of course indicate that my arguments are so bad that they’re not worth engaging with, but the fact that many of the members of the community find my criticism accurate and valuable, this seems unlikely.
As a datapoint, I thought that your reply was so bad that it was not worth engaging in, although I think you did find a couple of inaccuracies in DGB and appreciate the effort you went to. I’ll briefly explain my position.
I thought MacAskill’s explanations were convincing and your counter-argument missed his points completely, to the extent that you seem to have an axe to grind with him. E.g. if GiveWell is happy with how their research was presented in DGB (as MacAskill mentioned), then I really don’t see how you, as an outsider and non-GW representative, can complain that their research is misquoted without having extremely strong evidence. You do not have extremely strong evidence. Even if you did, there’s still the matter that GW’s interpretation of their numbers is not necessarily the only reasonable one (as Jan_Kulveit points out below).
You completely ignored MacAskill’s convincing counter-arguments while simultaneously accusing him of ignoring the substance your argument, so it seemed to me that there was little point in debating it further with you.
I wonder why my reply has so many downvotes (-8 score) and no replies. This could of course indicate that my arguments are so bad that they’re not worth engaging with, but the fact that many of the members of the community find my criticism accurate and valuable, this seems unlikely.
As a datapoint, I thought that your reply was so bad that it was not worth engaging in, although I think you did find a couple of inaccuracies in DGB and appreciate the effort you went to. I’ll briefly explain my position.
I thought MacAskill’s explanations were convincing and your counter-argument missed his points completely, to the extent that you seem to have an axe to grind with him. E.g. if GiveWell is happy with how their research was presented in DGB (as MacAskill mentioned), then I really don’t see how you, as an outsider and non-GW representative, can complain that their research is misquoted without having extremely strong evidence. You do not have extremely strong evidence. Even if you did, there’s still the matter that GW’s interpretation of their numbers is not necessarily the only reasonable one (as Jan_Kulveit points out below).
You completely ignored MacAskill’s convincing counter-arguments while simultaneously accusing him of ignoring the substance your argument, so it seemed to me that there was little point in debating it further with you.
I guess this is a valid point of view. Just in case, I emailed GiveWell about this issue.