Qiaochu_Yuan comments on AidGrade - GiveWell finally has some competition - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Raemon 22 January 2013 03:41PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 23 January 2013 09:59:50AM *  1 point [-]

Good point! But having too many charity effectiveness evaluators might be bad ("who evaluates the charity evaluators?"). Not that I think this is likely to be a problem.

Comment author: EricHerboso 24 January 2013 07:15:03PM 2 points [-]

Case in point: Charity Navigator, which places unreasonable importance on irrelevant statistics like administrative overhead. There are already charity effectiveness evaluators out there that are doing counter-productive work.

Personally, I think adding another good charity evaluator to the mix as competition to GiveWell/Giving What We Can is important to the overall health of the optimal philanthropy movement.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 January 2013 06:18:20PM 3 points [-]

GiveToGiveWellWell?