Thanks for the kind words! I like your summary. Just one note, since we are arguably so far from knowing whether insects have good or bad lives, I do not think we can take the conclusion below.
Based on a shallow dive and plugging some numbers into a simple model, the results suggest we should reallocate human health resources out of a few countries and into other countries where less habitat destruction is happening
I believe the best attitude is one of cluelessness, where we just know that insects may dominate (or not) the analysis, either making GiveWell’s top charities much more harmful or beneficial. Moreover, we should beware surprising and suspicious convergence. If insects indeed went on to dominate the analysis (quite unclear), I would expect targetted wild animal interventions to be more effective than global health and development ones.
It would also be nice to move the acronyms (i.e. t_a) to the figure captions where they’re presented, and work on better formatting the tables.
I have now restated the meaning of N_ta and N_h just before the tables, and improved the formatting of the headers of the table a little.
You’ve done the research and thinking, so take a little more time to polish up the presentation so we can read it more easily :)
Thanks for the kind words! I like your summary. Just one note, since we are arguably so far from knowing whether insects have good or bad lives, I do not think we can take the conclusion below.
I believe the best attitude is one of cluelessness, where we just know that insects may dominate (or not) the analysis, either making GiveWell’s top charities much more harmful or beneficial. Moreover, we should beware surprising and suspicious convergence. If insects indeed went on to dominate the analysis (quite unclear), I would expect targetted wild animal interventions to be more effective than global health and development ones.
I have now restated the meaning of N_ta and N_h just before the tables, and improved the formatting of the headers of the table a little.
Ah, you are right!