Thanks for the highlight! Yeah I would love better infrastructure for trying to really figure out what the best uses of money are. I don’t think it has to be as formal/quantitative as GiveWell. To quote myself from a recent comment (bolding added)
At some level, implicitly ranking charities [eg by donating to one and not another] is kind of an insane thing for an individual to do—not in an anti-EA way (you can do way better than vibes/guessing randomly) but in a “there must be better mechanisms/institutions for outsourcing donation advice than GiveWell and ACE and ad hoc posts/tweets/etc and it’s really hard and high stakes” way.
Like what I would love is a lineup of 10-100 very highly engaged and informed people (could create the list simply by number of endorsements/requests) who talk about their strategy and values in a couple pages and then I just defer to them (does this exist?)
Thanks for the highlight! Yeah I would love better infrastructure for trying to really figure out what the best uses of money are. I don’t think it has to be as formal/quantitative as GiveWell. To quote myself from a recent comment (bolding added)