Thought this was interesting: More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World But what if the experts are wrong? ...
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Holden Karnofsky
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Apr 30, 2011 6:35 pm
Thanks for the thoughts. A couple of notes: - I agree that #1 and (to a lesser degree) #2 are the best areas for GiveWell to add value. - I do think we have...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Apr 30, 2011 6:36 pm
Tom, we feel that disaster relief is likely to be pretty far down on the list *when the disaster is highly publicized*. We made this argument for the 2010...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Apr 30, 2011 6:38 pm
We've had a fair number of requests to evaluate the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which Vipul mentioned in a recent email. This ...
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Jonah Sinick
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Apr 30, 2011 7:00 pm
Just to chime in regarding #4: I still think that there would be some value in (preliminary) investigation of the issues that Nick Beckstead raises in comments...
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Vipul Naik
vipul@...
May 1, 2011 12:14 am
Dear Holden/GiveWell, Thanks a lot for this update. In the transcript, the SIAI people mention two people, Peter Thiel (also mentioned in my earlier email) and...
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Jonah Sinick
jonah.sinick
May 1, 2011 8:22 am
Hi Vipul, While one may be able to gain some insight into the reasons for supporting a charity from talking to a large donors, I think that there's reason to...
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anil mahajan
anilanilm@...
May 1, 2011 2:59 pm
Dear Brian Good observations. May I say that every poor want to eat better quality food but the fact is that if they do so today, they are not assured if they...
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Brian Slesinsky
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May 1, 2011 8:26 pm
Hi Anil, Thanks for your email. To clarify, everything in my email is a quotation from the article in Foreign Policy that I linked to, and that article is an ...
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Brian Slesinsky
skybrian
May 1, 2011 8:35 pm
... Actually, on re-reading the article, they do talk about this. I'd be interested in your thoughts ont he full article. - Brian...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
May 2, 2011 3:48 pm
Thanks for sharing the article and for the thoughts. I'm currently reading the article author's recent book (Poor Economics) and will be sharing thoughts on...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
May 3, 2011 2:41 pm
A few responses: - I've never spoken to Peter Thiel. I've not seen any public statement that clarifies his thinking on the issues I see as key. - I am not so...
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Jonah Sinick
jonah.sinick
May 3, 2011 7:45 pm
On a different note, there was just a post on Less Wrong here ... (But which may nevertheless be of interest to other donors)...
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Jonah Sinick
jonah.sinick
May 3, 2011 8:06 pm
Holden, ... add is that a billionaire donating 1% of his or her income isn't a strong signal of seriousness of purpose - at such revenue levels one has a huge ...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Jun 6, 2011 5:43 pm
I've posted an email exchange I had with a critical reader who questioned our use of test scores as a major metric in our report on U.S. education. I thought...
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Elie Hassenfeld
elie@...
Jun 24, 2011 9:14 pm
Our top priority for 2011 is identifying charities with additional room for more funding ( ...
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Brian Slesinsky
skybrian
Jul 3, 2011 3:37 am
Interesting if true. - Brian Does Disease Cause Autocracy? New studies say that lowering the rate of infection helps lead to political liberalization. "Greater...
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anil mahajan
anilanilm@...
Jul 4, 2011 12:27 pm
There is nothing new in this. Look at how it goes: Poor people, especially developing countries of the world, are forced to live in unclean and unhygienic...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Jul 9, 2011 3:53 pm
Alexander Berger, who starts as a GiveWell employee on Monday, has been working on an analysis of the question, "Do higher Charity Navigator ratings cause...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Jul 9, 2011 3:57 pm
Addition to my previous email: here are comments that Elie and I sent in response to Alexander with suggestions for further analysis. ... From: Elie Hassenfeld...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Jul 18, 2011 10:32 pm
Hello all, I did end up speaking to Jaan Tallinn (Dario Amodei joined me on the phone call), and we continued a sporadic exchange over email for the next...
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Tom Ash
thomasash
Aug 1, 2011 11:48 am
Hi, I'm doing research on disaster relief for Giving What We Can, and am just looking into the current East African famine. I've read with interest most,...
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Tom Ash
thomasash
Aug 2, 2011 11:38 am
I thought I'd copy this back to the GiveWell list as I'm still looking for answers to or pointers on the question below. (Anil replied saying he thought the $1...
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Vipul Naik
vipul@...
Aug 2, 2011 4:38 pm
Dear GiveWell mailing list, As an experiment in yet another layer of public scrutiny, GiveWell has created a new ombudsperson/public critic role, intended to...
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Kate Lang
kateelang@...
Aug 3, 2011 1:21 am
Hi Tom, I just the other day read an Economist article about the famine that you may find interesting: http://www.economist.com/node/21524864, particularly the...
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Alexander Berger
albrgr
Aug 3, 2011 3:54 pm
Hi Tom, Thanks for reaching out. In GiveWell's experience, the type of information you're looking for isn't available. We focused our report on disaster relief...
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nstone3
Aug 4, 2011 4:06 pm
We have posted an update on our top-rated charity, VillageReach, at http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/villagereach/updates. Please let us...
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Jonah Sinick
jonah.sinick
Aug 4, 2011 10:10 pm
Hi Natalie, There seem to be three items in the update which point toward lower than expected cost-effectiveness of VillageReach's activities: 1. "VillageReach...
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nstone3
Aug 5, 2011 9:41 pm
Hi Jonah, As you note, we will be updating our evaluations of our recommended charities in the coming months (we are working on this now), and our ratings and...
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Elie Hassenfeld
elie@...
Aug 31, 2011 4:07 pm
On August 18th, we convened a meeting of approximately 30 supporters to discuss our research. The goal of the event was to have an open-ended discussion about...
