thanks for your comment. As it looks like, we’ll talk to GiveWell tomorrow (mostly to decide which kind of format the project should have), before we decide how to proceed. We’ll update everyone on this thread then.
We’ll keep your other concerns in mind and will bring up some of them with GiveWell, especially whether RCTs are worth it. The details should be left for the intern to investigate, though.
We think it’s very likely to be valuable to at least talk to experts from the prospective areas as well.
We aren’t necessarily intending to start a new charity then ourselves, since as you said, we might not be the people best suited to it (though of course it might be better than noone doing it, but then again we have to look at opportunity costs.)
Right now we’re mostly keen on closing the gap between where the EA movement at large is now and a situation where EAs could just look quickly at the data and start a charity.
It would also be possible that I fund someone who’s willing to do this and/or they could apply to EA Ventures.
Hi Ben,
thanks for your comment. As it looks like, we’ll talk to GiveWell tomorrow (mostly to decide which kind of format the project should have), before we decide how to proceed. We’ll update everyone on this thread then.
We’ll keep your other concerns in mind and will bring up some of them with GiveWell, especially whether RCTs are worth it. The details should be left for the intern to investigate, though. We think it’s very likely to be valuable to at least talk to experts from the prospective areas as well.
We aren’t necessarily intending to start a new charity then ourselves, since as you said, we might not be the people best suited to it (though of course it might be better than noone doing it, but then again we have to look at opportunity costs.) Right now we’re mostly keen on closing the gap between where the EA movement at large is now and a situation where EAs could just look quickly at the data and start a charity. It would also be possible that I fund someone who’s willing to do this and/or they could apply to EA Ventures.
Best, Denise