Rory Fenton

Karma: 527

I run new programs at Innovate Animal Ag. I used to lead the research team at a nonprofit focused on building $1B+ philanthropic initiatives/megaprojects. Before that I lived in Tanzania and ran some RCTs there.

You probably won’t solve malaria or x-risk, and that’s ok

Rory FentonMar 19, 2025, 3:07 PM

213 points

13 comments5 min readEA link

Make RCTs cheaper: smaller treatment, bigger control groups

Rory FentonFeb 24, 2023, 11:18 PM

125 points

23 comments3 min readEA link

Against cash benchmarking for global development RCTs

Rory FentonMar 21, 2022, 12:29 AM

116 points

12 comments5 min readEA link

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Rory Fenton

You prob­a­bly won’t solve malaria or x-risk, and that’s ok

Make RCTs cheaper: smaller treat­ment, big­ger con­trol groups

Against cash bench­mark­ing for global de­vel­op­ment RCTs

You probably won’t solve malaria or x-risk, and that’s ok

Make RCTs cheaper: smaller treatment, bigger control groups

Against cash benchmarking for global development RCTs