Sounds interesting. I had a go at the tool, but was a bit perplexed that the “lottery story” it showed me was for a Romanian earning $2,500/month, which doesn’t seem like the kind of life that people’s attention needs to be most drawn to or represents people that would be helped by effective development charities (it even says this person is at the 86th percentile of global income). And then below that it talked about ending hunger, eradicating disease etc., which didn’t relate to the story. I’d focus it on stories about the kinds of people that effective charities would actually help. I tried to get it to generate another story to see what else comes up, but it wouldn’t.
Thanks for trying it out! I agree that what you describe is a bit of a failing of the current version. A true lottery should be random, making it just as likely to pick someone in the 86th percentile as the 6th percentile, but I agree that the flow ought to facilitate resampling and make the giving case on that basis. I’m working on a few things in this direction.
Sounds interesting. I had a go at the tool, but was a bit perplexed that the “lottery story” it showed me was for a Romanian earning $2,500/month, which doesn’t seem like the kind of life that people’s attention needs to be most drawn to or represents people that would be helped by effective development charities (it even says this person is at the 86th percentile of global income). And then below that it talked about ending hunger, eradicating disease etc., which didn’t relate to the story. I’d focus it on stories about the kinds of people that effective charities would actually help. I tried to get it to generate another story to see what else comes up, but it wouldn’t.
Thanks for trying it out! I agree that what you describe is a bit of a failing of the current version. A true lottery should be random, making it just as likely to pick someone in the 86th percentile as the 6th percentile, but I agree that the flow ought to facilitate resampling and make the giving case on that basis. I’m working on a few things in this direction.
It’s not clear to me why the aim ought to be to sample randomly amongst all people—it seems like a different population could reasonably be chosen!