Joris Van Houtven

• Joris Van Houtven 24 Jun 2024 14:52 UTC

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  on: Founders Pledge’s Cli­mate Change Fund might be more cost-effec­tive than GiveWell’s top char­i­ties, but it is much less cost-effec­tive than cor­po­rate cam­paigns for chicken welfare?

  I admire and encourage your mathematical diligence.

  What I’m worried about is the error bars—multiplying errors can cause wild differences between the estimated and actual numbers. If the error bars of the two funds (CCF and TCF) overlap significantly, it might be too soon to judge which one is best.

• Joris Van Houtven 15 Sep 2021 19:07 UTC

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  on: The psy­chol­ogy of pop­u­la­tion ethics

  Thanks for this interesting post. A request/​suggestion: the graph of section 2 in this article could be explained more clearly. Though I read the caption a couple of times, I still don’t understand what the scores on the axes mean exactly. If this is a popular post, I’d consider clarifying.