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Raemon comments on AidGrade - GiveWell finally has some competition - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: Raemon 23 January 2013 02:53:33PM 1 point [-]

Apologies to everyone involved for the "Choice paralysis" line. It was (I thought a bit more obviously), an exaggeration. To be clear: I myself rely on GiveWell, not to do identify the best charity for me, but to establish a lower bound on what "the most effective charity" might be, which I can compare to my best efforts at reviewing more-difficult-to-evaluate-but-probably-higher-impact charities (like, say, CFAR). And this is neither "choice paralysis" nor "not having any idea what to do." I'll change the OP to be less flippant.

I want to express my thanks to Eva for starting this project, and wish her luck and will getting more research done and the website updated with more content in the days/weeks/months to come.