I don’t know how much we should update on this, but I’m now personally a bit less concerned about the “self-recommending” issues of EA resources being mostly recommended by people in the EA social community.[1]
I think this is a good sign for the effective giving ecosystem, and will make my relatives much less worried about how I spend my money.
Not that I was super concerned after digging deeper into things in the past year, but I remember being really concerned about it ~2 years ago, and most people don’t have that much time to look into things.
I don’t think his foundations really does marketing for donations. My guess is that from his point of view, he thinks it’s preferable—but that he thinks GiveWell could be a good fit as a donation target to many audience members.
Bill Gates just endorsed GiveWell!
I don’t know how much we should update on this, but I’m now personally a bit less concerned about the “self-recommending” issues of EA resources being mostly recommended by people in the EA social community.[1]
I think this is a good sign for the effective giving ecosystem, and will make my relatives much less worried about how I spend my money.
Not that I was super concerned after digging deeper into things in the past year, but I remember being really concerned about it ~2 years ago, and most people don’t have that much time to look into things.
I am confused as to why he doesn’t give $1bn a year to GiveWell, but I guess let’s wait a year and see if that happens.
I don’t think his foundations really does marketing for donations. My guess is that from his point of view, he thinks it’s preferable—but that he thinks GiveWell could be a good fit as a donation target to many audience members.
That’s fantastic!! Great to see, thanks for sharing!