I don’t think it’s appropriate to include donations to ACE or GiveWell as ‘cause prioritization.’ I think ACE should be classed as animal welfare and GiveWell as global poverty.
My understanding is that cause prioritization is broad comparison research.
Cause prioritization looks at broad causes (e.g. migration, global warming, global health, life extension) in order to compare them, instead of examining individual charities within each cause (as has been traditional).
It does seem to me that GiveWell and ACE are qualitatively of a different kind than the organizations they evaluate. I do agree it is a judgement call, though. If you feel differently, all the raw data is there for you to create a new analysis that categorizes the organizations differently.
I don’t think it’s appropriate to include donations to ACE or GiveWell as ‘cause prioritization.’ I think ACE should be classed as animal welfare and GiveWell as global poverty.
My understanding is that cause prioritization is broad comparison research.
https://causeprioritization.org/Cause%20prioritization
It does seem to me that GiveWell and ACE are qualitatively of a different kind than the organizations they evaluate. I do agree it is a judgement call, though. If you feel differently, all the raw data is there for you to create a new analysis that categorizes the organizations differently.