I’m giving to GiveDirectly again, as I have every year since learning about them. I think they’re undervalued in the EA community in general, because we don’t yet have a way to give enough weight to subjective wellbeing, the value of self-determination, or justice. I think it is good that extremely poor people would have the opportunity to choose how to improve their own lives—rather than those types of decisions being made for them, however rigorously.
I’m giving to GiveDirectly again, as I have every year since learning about them. I think they’re undervalued in the EA community in general, because we don’t yet have a way to give enough weight to subjective wellbeing, the value of self-determination, or justice. I think it is good that extremely poor people would have the opportunity to choose how to improve their own lives—rather than those types of decisions being made for them, however rigorously.
You say “don’t yet”...are you aware of anyone working on a project to incorporate deontology or other non-utilitarian factors in cause prioritization?