Yes, fortunately I am both quite autistic and also don’t know many EA people in person.
isn’t honest about it with donors.
Yeah, there’s an obvious problem whereby organizations with ‘dirty secrets’ will tend not to share them. As a result, in investment we tend to work out what they key metrics are and then assume the worst if companies don’t release them. (Sovereigns can get a bit more leeway because they are incompetent and big). My understanding is that GiveWell uses a similar methodology of assuming the worst from the charities it looks at.
Yes, fortunately I am both quite autistic and also don’t know many EA people in person.
Yeah, there’s an obvious problem whereby organizations with ‘dirty secrets’ will tend not to share them. As a result, in investment we tend to work out what they key metrics are and then assume the worst if companies don’t release them. (Sovereigns can get a bit more leeway because they are incompetent and big). My understanding is that GiveWell uses a similar methodology of assuming the worst from the charities it looks at.