Sure. But if you change 10^3 into 10^4, we’re still talking the same order of magnitude of cost-effectiveness as GiveDirectly’s cash transfers (depending on how highly consumption should be valued against DALY’s averted, etc.). Even if we assume that a full accounting would show the cost-effectiveness of donations to medical research to be worse than that, what other domestic charities would have a “first-guess cost-effectiveness estimate” even in the same ballpark?
Sure. But if you change 10^3 into 10^4, we’re still talking the same order of magnitude of cost-effectiveness as GiveDirectly’s cash transfers (depending on how highly consumption should be valued against DALY’s averted, etc.). Even if we assume that a full accounting would show the cost-effectiveness of donations to medical research to be worse than that, what other domestic charities would have a “first-guess cost-effectiveness estimate” even in the same ballpark?
Agreed :)