Wow amazing 2022 article by the way. I never saw it at the time, it was before I was on the forum!
After reading the thread I might fall marginally more on your side of the argument there, especially as inflation probably did contribute to the trump victory. But it is also yet another demonstration of how hard philanthropy gets, the higher level you get in politics or economics, with so much disagreement and uncertainty. There’s just so much disagreement from experts on almost every major issue, so it’s very hard to know on which side to push the money.
Taking a low percentage “hit based” approach on human welfare issues is one thing, but when it’s super unclear even if you make that hit whether its positive or negative EV is where I start to think why not just take a punt on something deeply uncertain but never negative EV like shrimp instead.
Wow amazing 2022 article by the way. I never saw it at the time, it was before I was on the forum!
After reading the thread I might fall marginally more on your side of the argument there, especially as inflation probably did contribute to the trump victory. But it is also yet another demonstration of how hard philanthropy gets, the higher level you get in politics or economics, with so much disagreement and uncertainty. There’s just so much disagreement from experts on almost every major issue, so it’s very hard to know on which side to push the money.
Taking a low percentage “hit based” approach on human welfare issues is one thing, but when it’s super unclear even if you make that hit whether its positive or negative EV is where I start to think why not just take a punt on something deeply uncertain but never negative EV like shrimp instead.