I’m working on something similar. See https://impactlist.xyz/ for a very early demo. Don’t take the effectiveness ratings that seriously yet—I’ve just done very shallow research using LLMs so far. The aim is not to measure how wealthy people would be if they never donated to charity, but how much good billionaires have done with their charitable donations.
I like this! Though I feel like a lot of the numbers are based on long-termist speculation rather than empiricism, which I think could hinder it from being widely adopted. It might also be cool to add how many lives the billionaires could potentially save if they donated most of their wealth.
I’m working on something similar. See https://impactlist.xyz/ for a very early demo. Don’t take the effectiveness ratings that seriously yet—I’ve just done very shallow research using LLMs so far. The aim is not to measure how wealthy people would be if they never donated to charity, but how much good billionaires have done with their charitable donations.
I originally posted about it on this forum a couple years ago (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LCJa4AAi7YBcyro2H/proposal-impact-list-like-the-forbes-list-except-for-impact) but didn’t start working on it seriously until this month.
Currently looking for volunteers (researchers and React devs). Here’s the discord: https://discord.gg/6GNre8U2ta.
I’m a big fan of this. Imagine if this becomes the primary way billionaires are ranked on prestige
I like this! Though I feel like a lot of the numbers are based on long-termist speculation rather than empiricism, which I think could hinder it from being widely adopted. It might also be cool to add how many lives the billionaires could potentially save if they donated most of their wealth.