When I sent an email to the email address mentioned above, I received a well-meaning automated reply.
However, it contained the following part, which I don’t think we should lead with:
In the meantime, why not check out some fun facts about Effective Altruism? Did you know that by donating to charity, you can save a life for as little as $3.33? Or that some of the most effective ways to make a positive impact are also some of the most unexpected? https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-effective-altruism
This is inaccurate at best and deceiving and harmful at worst—and it’s even debunked by the very link you follow this up with![1]
On the mistake you cited in our automated email—a huge apology from the team to you and the EA community. I can assure you that no intentional ‘deceit’ was involved, this was an honest mistake by one of our team members. Still, I appreciate the sentiment that this could be considered harmful misinformation, and we’re extremely sorry about that.
Based on this, we’ve had some internal discussions, and we’ve implemented a new policy whereby our outreach manager will review all of our written content before it is released to ensure that a mistake like this does not happen again.
Adding some data to this:
When I sent an email to the email address mentioned above, I received a well-meaning automated reply.
However, it contained the following part, which I don’t think we should lead with:
This is inaccurate at best and deceiving and harmful at worst—and it’s even debunked by the very link you follow this up with![1]
The CEA website mentions the more commonly used number of 5,500$.
Hi Moritz von Knebel,
On the mistake you cited in our automated email—a huge apology from the team to you and the EA community. I can assure you that no intentional ‘deceit’ was involved, this was an honest mistake by one of our team members. Still, I appreciate the sentiment that this could be considered harmful misinformation, and we’re extremely sorry about that.
Based on this, we’ve had some internal discussions, and we’ve implemented a new policy whereby our outreach manager will review all of our written content before it is released to ensure that a mistake like this does not happen again.