Clarity comments on Open Thread, Feb 8 - Feb 15, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clarity 11 February 2016 06:56:58AM *  0 points [-]

The correlates of war dataset. Now discussions about military interventions can go beyond our interventions, single case examples and personal reference experiences.

Would anyone be willing to look at humanitarian interventions from an effective altruism angle? Since the Open Philanthropy Project doesn't even have a shallow investigation of the topic, donors, researchers and advocates might be missing quite an important cause.