Customizable Moral Parliament tools for better decision-making

Our Moral Parliament Tool allows users to navigate uncertainty about key assumptions that affect our assessment of interventions. It does so by representing diverse perspectives as delegates in a democratic decision-making process about how to distribute resources.

We have added functionality to the original Parliament Tool, which allows it to be adapted to novel resource allocation problems simply by editing a spreadsheet.

We have built four ready-to-use parliaments that demonstrate the versatility and utility of the tool:

  • GiveWell Parliament: Evaluate global health charities using different moral weights, including animal welfare considerations that GiveWell does not currently include [post /​ parliament]

  • Animal Parliament: Set funding priorities across different kinds of farmed animals (chickens, fish, shrimp, and insects) given uncertainty about sentience, welfare ranges, and project success rates [post /​ parliament]

  • Bioethics Parliament: Allocate healthcare resources in light of diverse bioethical views (e.g., Rule of Rescue, Utilitarian, etc.). [post /​ parliament]

  • Movement Building Parliament: navigate strategic decisions about growing effective altruism (though this is more speculative and serves primarily as a template for users to modify) [post /​ parliament]

We also provide instructions for how users can adapt the Parliament for their own resource allocation problems.

Nav­i­gat­ing dona­tion dilem­mas: cus­tomiz­able Mo­ral Par­li­a­ment tools for bet­ter de­ci­sion-making

A Mo­ral Par­li­a­ment Tool for Eval­u­at­ing GiveWell Projects

A Mo­ral Par­li­a­ment Tool for Distribut­ing Re­sources across Farmed An­i­mal Recipients

A Mo­ral Par­li­a­ment Tool for Nav­i­gat­ing Bioeth­i­cal Disagreements

A Mo­ral Par­li­a­ment Tool for Distribut­ing Move­ment Build­ing Resources

In­struc­tions for mod­ify­ing the Mo­ral Par­li­a­ment Tool