That doesn’t fit well with his concern for “abandonment”. It would imply instead that Prioritarian-Oxfam should instead pour all of their resources into South Sudan (abandoning Bangladeshi kids entirely). But yeah, probably worth mentioning this explicitly! It’s part of a more general lesson I’d like the paper to bring out, namely, that one can of course optimize for things other than prima facie utilitarian impact, but even so the results are going to look very different from the (thoroughly unoptimized) old-fashioned approaches to philanthropy.
That doesn’t fit well with his concern for “abandonment”. It would imply instead that Prioritarian-Oxfam should instead pour all of their resources into South Sudan (abandoning Bangladeshi kids entirely). But yeah, probably worth mentioning this explicitly! It’s part of a more general lesson I’d like the paper to bring out, namely, that one can of course optimize for things other than prima facie utilitarian impact, but even so the results are going to look very different from the (thoroughly unoptimized) old-fashioned approaches to philanthropy.