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26 Post author: Benjamin_Todd 12 August 2012 11:14PM

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Comment author: Benjamin_Todd 17 August 2012 07:17:46PM 2 points [-]

Givewell is effectively attempting to work out which charities most increase human welfare for dollar. So, a charity 'fails' if it becomes clearly less effective than the next best.