I personally think people worry disproportionately about grift on the EA Forum, while implementation challenges and other considerations seem to be bigger risks in practice. (e.g. I don’t think the Wytham project or Dispensers for Safe Water would have been more successful if they had been assigned to more vegan or more frugal people)
Here’s another list from Caroline Ellison during the FTX times on valuable signals: https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​posts/​​M44i4CiMECP5Xoorz/​​demandingness-and-time-money-tradeoffs-are-orthogonal (which I’m not sure I agree with, but I found interesting)
I personally think people worry disproportionately about grift on the EA Forum, while implementation challenges and other considerations seem to be bigger risks in practice. (e.g. I don’t think the Wytham project or Dispensers for Safe Water would have been more successful if they had been assigned to more vegan or more frugal people)