This plan can work if GiveWell adjust their top charity as a function of incoming donations sufficiently fast. For example, if GiveWell have precomputed the marginal utility per dollar of each donation as a function of its budget and they have access to a continuously updated budget figure for each charity, they can create an automatically updated “top charities” page.
This is already addressed in the post (a late addition maybe?)
Yeah, it wasn’t there when I posted the above. The “donate to the top charity on GiveWell” plan is a very good example of what I was talking about.
This plan can work if GiveWell adjust their top charity as a function of incoming donations sufficiently fast. For example, if GiveWell have precomputed the marginal utility per dollar of each donation as a function of its budget and they have access to a continuously updated budget figure for each charity, they can create an automatically updated “top charities” page.