a lot of my confidence in the above comes from farmed animal welfare strictly dominating GiveWell in terms of any plausibly relevant criteria save for maybe PR
Well some people might have ethical views or moral weights that are extremely favourable to people-focused interventions.
Or people could really value certainty of impact, and the evidence base could lead them to be much more confident that marginal donations to GiveWell charities have a counterfactual impact than marginal donations to animal welfare advocacy orgs.
FWIW I’m more likely to donate to animal welfare orgs too, but I’m sufficiently uncertain that I wouldn’t say I believe they dominate the GW orgs on relevant criteria. That would be pretty surprising, they’re very different in their goals and approach!
Well some people might have ethical views or moral weights that are extremely favourable to people-focused interventions.
Or people could really value certainty of impact, and the evidence base could lead them to be much more confident that marginal donations to GiveWell charities have a counterfactual impact than marginal donations to animal welfare advocacy orgs.
FWIW I’m more likely to donate to animal welfare orgs too, but I’m sufficiently uncertain that I wouldn’t say I believe they dominate the GW orgs on relevant criteria. That would be pretty surprising, they’re very different in their goals and approach!