I don’t know how you get around this, but the framing of ‘lives saved’ feels a bit off, if you’re not going to count ‘deaths caused’. For example, there’s a guy on there who’s probably responsible for a few million deaths, give or take, because he pretty much single-handedly shut down USAID. It feels icky to see him up there tbh, given the harm we know he’s done.
I do count ‘deaths caused’ via donations (the AI capabilities cause area has a negative cost per life saved), but the root of the issue is that I look only at impact via donations and not overall impact via everything a person does. I eventually want to include those things too, but it seemed like too much work for the first version.
I do have a rule which keeps SBF off the list, that I exclude money donated if it was the proceeds of a crime. In that case there’s a pretty clear line that can be drawn.
Do you have a suggestion for a simple policy you’d want me to adopt to deal with general harmful non-donation actions?
I don’t know how you get around this, but the framing of ‘lives saved’ feels a bit off, if you’re not going to count ‘deaths caused’. For example, there’s a guy on there who’s probably responsible for a few million deaths, give or take, because he pretty much single-handedly shut down USAID. It feels icky to see him up there tbh, given the harm we know he’s done.
I do count ‘deaths caused’ via donations (the AI capabilities cause area has a negative cost per life saved), but the root of the issue is that I look only at impact via donations and not overall impact via everything a person does. I eventually want to include those things too, but it seemed like too much work for the first version.
I do have a rule which keeps SBF off the list, that I exclude money donated if it was the proceeds of a crime. In that case there’s a pretty clear line that can be drawn.
Do you have a suggestion for a simple policy you’d want me to adopt to deal with general harmful non-donation actions?
Like, if your goal with this project is to inspire rich people to think about doing good, I wouldn’t include an obviously really bad guy on the list.