I think donors motivated by EA principles would be making a mistake, and leaving a lot of value on the table by donating to GiveDirectly or StrongMinds over GiveWell’s recommendations
Not going into the wider discussion, I specifically disagree with this idea: there’s a trade-off here between estimated impact and things like risk, paternalism, scalability. If I’m risk-averse enough, or give some partial weight to bring less paternalistic, I might prefer donating to GiveDirectly—which I indeed am, despite choosing to donate to AMF in the past.
(In practice, I expect I’ll try to do a sort of Softmax based on my subjective estimates of a few different charities and give different amounts to all of them.)
Not going into the wider discussion, I specifically disagree with this idea: there’s a trade-off here between estimated impact and things like risk, paternalism, scalability. If I’m risk-averse enough, or give some partial weight to bring less paternalistic, I might prefer donating to GiveDirectly—which I indeed am, despite choosing to donate to AMF in the past.
(In practice, I expect I’ll try to do a sort of Softmax based on my subjective estimates of a few different charities and give different amounts to all of them.)