EAs say they don’t care about overhead per se and just care about outcomes, but public-facing recommenders like GiveWell and CEA keep recommending charities with low overhead relative to programmatic spending, such as AMF and GiveDirectly, rather than charities that do the sort of hard-to-account-for institution-building which low-overhead charities depend on.
EAs are good at explaining why you shouldn’t do what they’re (we’re?) doing. That’s different than actually doing the right thing.
EAs are good at explaining why you shouldn’t do what they’re (we’re?) doing. That’s different than actually doing the right thing.
I agree (with the second part, at least).
The author of the video said “according to Singer” repeatedly, so I assumed he also disagrees with what EAs are saying. If the real objection was “Singer says to do the right thing, but then actually does exactly the thing he said was wrong”, I didn’t get that message from the video. (Maybe the problem is on my side.)
Singer also recommends charities like the GW top charities, specifically mentions GiveWell approvingly, does cost-benefit analyses that ignore social & physical infrastructure, etc. These are also things Singer is saying.
EAs say they don’t care about overhead per se and just care about outcomes, but public-facing recommenders like GiveWell and CEA keep recommending charities with low overhead relative to programmatic spending, such as AMF and GiveDirectly, rather than charities that do the sort of hard-to-account-for institution-building which low-overhead charities depend on.
EAs are good at explaining why you shouldn’t do what they’re (we’re?) doing. That’s different than actually doing the right thing.
I agree (with the second part, at least).
The author of the video said “according to Singer” repeatedly, so I assumed he also disagrees with what EAs are saying. If the real objection was “Singer says to do the right thing, but then actually does exactly the thing he said was wrong”, I didn’t get that message from the video. (Maybe the problem is on my side.)
Singer also recommends charities like the GW top charities, specifically mentions GiveWell approvingly, does cost-benefit analyses that ignore social & physical infrastructure, etc. These are also things Singer is saying.