The GiveWell analysis approach holds true in the long run. Today, IRC blogged about the need to remember and donate on behalf of efforts to address current...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Feb 1, 2010 3:58 pm
I'm broadly in agreement with the points raised by Dario, Brian Slesinsky and David Morrow, all of which stress that your personal talents/interests are a huge...
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J Nguyen
jan.nguyen@...
Feb 1, 2010 4:06 pm
I am inspired and encouraged to see the interesting and insightful views from everyone. As a 20-year experienced chemical/environmental engineer who quit my...
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David Morrow
dmorrow1@...
Feb 1, 2010 4:28 pm
I want to second Holden's point about for-profit activity. For-profit enterprise can do a tremendous amount of good. People on this list might be particularly...
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Sarah Cobey
sarahcobey@...
Feb 1, 2010 4:41 pm
A major caveat about for-profit work is that potentially the most important areas in which help is urgently needed are those whose benefits are not currently...
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Nick Beckstead
nbeckstead@...
Feb 1, 2010 4:45 pm
Any thoughts on what the best unglamorous, unprestigious, uncelebrated, highly lucrative job would be, or what some of the best ones would be? ... Any thoughts...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Feb 1, 2010 5:48 pm
Interesting question; thanks. I think it's important to highlight that we've emphasized the role of others' funding in the research we've done. We look for...
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rnoble@...
Feb 1, 2010 5:59 pm
One question I haven't noticed being addressed that might be of interest: To what extent are you willing to sacrifice your own happiness (however defined) to...
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Jonah Sinick
jonah.sinick
Feb 2, 2010 1:02 am
There are few points that I wanted to make which are likely subtext for some of the preceding posts but which I haven't seen made explicit yet: (1)The marginal...
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Elie Hassenfeld
elie@...
Feb 8, 2010 4:10 pm
One of the areas we're planning to investigate in 2010 is the cause of medical or disease research. By disease research, we mean the cause of funding research...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Feb 8, 2010 6:45 pm
I'd like to respond to a few points people have raised (again, these are all personal/informal thoughts rather than "GiveWell views"): *Re: social...
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Jonah Sinick
jonah.sinick
Feb 9, 2010 6:06 am
On Holden's last message: More than arguing for a particular strategy I was arguing for taking into account the phenomenon of replaceability. For example, some...
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Brian Slesinsky
skybrian
Feb 9, 2010 7:47 am
... I haven't done any analysis, but it seems pretty unlikely that there will be any shortage of opportunities for doctors to do volunteer work in poor places...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Feb 9, 2010 8:40 pm
I don't think that areas with healthy incentives are "fine almost by definition." For example, the incentives to create a Google-quality search were there for...
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Elie Hassenfeld
elie@...
Mar 11, 2010 5:56 pm
In this email, I want to give a brief overview of our research plans for the coming year and also update this group on our plans for one particular area of...
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Phil Steinmeyer
psteinx
Mar 11, 2010 6:37 pm
Good thoughts. I'm glad to see that environmental charities do not make the cut at this time (they had been discussed previously). I think that environmental...
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Jonah Sinick
jonah.sinick
Mar 11, 2010 9:45 pm
Overall your research plans look good and seems coherent to me. One thing that I'm unclear on is why disease research looks to GiveWell to be a potentially...
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jasonfehr66
Mar 12, 2010 3:07 am
Before reading through Cutler's paper http://elsa.berkeley.edu/users/burch/april2.pdf and Elie's comments, I would have guessed that medical research wasn't a...
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Elie Hassenfeld
elie@...
Mar 12, 2010 3:47 pm
I want to quickly respond to the points made by Jonah and Phil. Regarding environmental causes. This is still an area we do want to look into because it's one...
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Elie Hassenfeld
elie@...
Mar 12, 2010 4:48 pm
Thanks for the thoughts, Jason. I've been continuing to work on disease research. I've mostly been (a) fleshing out the questions we want to try to answer and...
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Elie Hassenfeld
elie@...
Mar 12, 2010 5:05 pm
Jason, You wrote, "those that show great potential for additional research (I would guess type 1 diabetes and cystic fibrosis would be good candidates)." What...
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Jason
jasonfehr66
Mar 13, 2010 4:20 am
... A few reasons. Generally, great progress is more likely with a disease that has a single identifiable cause which is consistent from person to person. A...
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Jason
jasonfehr66
Mar 13, 2010 4:43 am
... I think this is very interesting, and it's something that had not occurred to me until reading Holden's post about giving to Stop TB rather than...
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rnoble@...
Mar 13, 2010 4:27 pm
I may have missed this issue being addressed and apolgize if so: I think most medical research is probably very cost-effective given a long enough time...
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Elie Hassenfeld
elie@...
Mar 18, 2010 11:10 pm
Another cause we're planning to cover this year is Equality of Opportunity in the United States (the full list of causes we're working on is at the top of this...
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Helen Walka
helen.walka@...
Mar 19, 2010 12:39 am
... I am enjoying reading about your work and glad to see that you will be looking into the whole area of Equality of Opportunity. The question of what ...
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Natalie Stone
nstone3
Apr 15, 2010 7:30 pm
We have been continuing our process to find great microfinance charities. In this post we discuss our process to date and the evolution of our criteria. ...
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anil mahajan
anilanilm@...
Apr 16, 2010 2:03 pm
The following msg was sent to Natalie Stone in response to her findings on the microfinance. This is being sent again on her request for benefit of givewell...
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Elie Hassenfeld
elie@...
May 18, 2010 3:27 pm
This is an update on our progress on the cause of disease research. (Previous update and related messages at ...
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Nick Beckstead
nbeckstead@...
May 18, 2010 3:55 pm
Forgive me, for asking such a basic questions, but how are you or other researchers weighing benefits from medical research that are highly indirect or...
