Thanks for collecting those quotes here. Because of some of what you quoted, I was confused for a while as to how much weight they actually put on their cost-effectiveness estimates. Elie’s appearance on Spencer Greenberg’s Clearer Thinking Podcast should be the most recent view on the issue.
In my experience, GiveWell is one of the few institutions that’s trying to make decisions based on cost-effectiveness analyses and trying to do that in a consistent and principled way. GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness estimates are not the only input into our decisions to fund programs, there are some other factors, but they’re certainly 80% plus of the case. I think we’re relatively unique in that way.
Thanks for collecting those quotes here. Because of some of what you quoted, I was confused for a while as to how much weight they actually put on their cost-effectiveness estimates. Elie’s appearance on Spencer Greenberg’s Clearer Thinking Podcast should be the most recent view on the issue.
(Time at the start of the quote: 29:14).