CarlShulman comments on A critique of effective altruism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 02 December 2013 07:13:03PM 8 points [-]

GiveWell spends a lot of time making estimating their performance easier (nearly everything possible is transparent, "mistakes" tab prominently displayed on the website, etc.). And I know some people take their raw material (conversations, etc.) and come to fairly different conclusions based on different values. GiveWell also solicits external reviews.

I think this is as good of an incentive structure as we're going to get

I think it would be better with more competitors in the same space keeping each other honest.

Comment author: benkuhn 02 December 2013 07:40:33PM 2 points [-]

Ah, good point. Weakened.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 03 December 2013 01:21:16AM 1 point [-]

I think it would be better with more competitors in the same space keeping each other honest.

Not necessarily, a lot of competitors might result in competition on providing plausible fuzzes rather than honesty.