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Maybe they're not trying very hard.
I'm actually seriously disappointed in how hard we're trying. I saw the discussion start in the comments of the "shut up and divide" thread. I came here expecting people to be all over it like ants on a picnic. Instead, there actually appears to be more thought going into spinning theories about why it would be hard than plans for doing it, and none of it really compares to all the serious thinking about TDT, MWI, or "Free Will."
Of course it's hard. The point is not that it's easy, but that it's relatively easy considering how much money is involved.
Here's my own halfharted stab:
This meme needs
GiveWell shows four charities with its top rating:
Village Reach is the winner, as far as the cause moving people. Saving babies in Africa trumps treating TB worldwide and educating mothers or children in the US. (Nurse-Family Partnership sends nurses to teach mothers how to be mothers.)
For the slogan, how about: "Save babies on Craigslist."
EDIT: links, spelling
I'm not sure why you think that's a bad thing. Effective project management is also about managing risks and downsides, and the most basic risk or downside an initiative can have is whether it's doable at all or worth doing at all. Raw motivation is a necessary but not sufficient condition to success.
Success requires drawing up a plan that covers all links in a fairly long causal chain which starts with people having a discussion here and ends in someone writing a large check to a chosen charity, and you can't handwave away any of the links in that chain no matter how trivial the nature of that link. One of the ways to find out all the links is to indulge in negativity, which people are often good at.
Actually the greatest risk here is that we get tied up in arguing about how to do it and don't actually go and do anything. As far as I'm concerned, that's much more likely than we get this going and all of the money somehow goes to bad charities. There is no way we are going to be able to establish the complete casual chains. At a certain point along the way, we're going to have to just wing it.