Thanks for the correction, I’ll fix the wording. Seems like Carl should make that clearer in his post too. I took the post to be saying that you’d handled the implementation and Carl had done the writeup.
I came up with the idea and basic method, then asked Paul if he would provide a donor lottery facility. He did so, and has been taking in entrants and solving logistical issues as they come up.
I agree that thinking/researching/discussing more dominates the gains in the $1-100k range.
Is giving small amounts of money away really something that individuals should spend a lot of time thinking about—like many days of research?
Is picking 9 other people whose competence you trust and delegating the decision to a randomly chosen one of them much easier than just doing whatever research you wanted to do, and then sharing your results? Are givewell doing duch a bad job at making recommendations that you have to improvise this and do their job for them?
Thanks for the correction, I’ll fix the wording. Seems like Carl should make that clearer in his post too. I took the post to be saying that you’d handled the implementation and Carl had done the writeup.
I came up with the idea and basic method, then asked Paul if he would provide a donor lottery facility. He did so, and has been taking in entrants and solving logistical issues as they come up.
I agree that thinking/researching/discussing more dominates the gains in the $1-100k range.
Is giving small amounts of money away really something that individuals should spend a lot of time thinking about—like many days of research?
Is picking 9 other people whose competence you trust and delegating the decision to a randomly chosen one of them much easier than just doing whatever research you wanted to do, and then sharing your results? Are givewell doing duch a bad job at making recommendations that you have to improvise this and do their job for them?
I think we have an underassignment of credit problem here. You can’t both be the junior partner in this. :P
Thanks for describing the details a bit more.
I too agree that the gains mainly come from more/better evaluation.