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casebash comments on The new GiveWell recommendations are out: here's a summary of the charities - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: casebash 04 December 2014 03:02:05AM *  0 points [-]

I can't understand how Living Goods can cause a 25% reduction in child mortality, but cost $10000 per life saved given that they are selling goods. More benefits are listed further down, but not in the summary of what each dollar achieves.

They also don't include any research projects. I guess that makes sense - no-one can really predict which research projects will be successful or not.