Worth pointing out that some socialists will also find this neo-colonialist.
To be fair, I’m not sure I’ve presented EA fairly there—EA initiatives do involve locals and benefit from local information and tacit knowledge (but maybe not sufficiently). Might be more appropriate to say “EAs use distant resources to solve local problems via collaboration between distant actors and local actors, but usually with the distant resource-holders setting priorities based on what they believe will benefit locals the most using evidence and reasoning.” Will edit to make this correction.
Didn’t know this about GiveWell—will read about it but at face value seems pretty awful to me!
Look here (Google doc) for more info about the GiveWell moral weights. I don’t like their approach to this, but as always I can praise them highly for the transparency :)
Worth pointing out that some socialists will also find this neo-colonialist.
To be fair, I’m not sure I’ve presented EA fairly there—EA initiatives do involve locals and benefit from local information and tacit knowledge (but maybe not sufficiently). Might be more appropriate to say “EAs use distant resources to solve local problems via collaboration between distant actors and local actors, but usually with the distant resource-holders setting priorities based on what they believe will benefit locals the most using evidence and reasoning.” Will edit to make this correction.
Didn’t know this about GiveWell—will read about it but at face value seems pretty awful to me!
Look here (Google doc) for more info about the GiveWell moral weights. I don’t like their approach to this, but as always I can praise them highly for the transparency :)