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Elie Hassenfeld on 2 big picture critiques of GiveWell's approach, and 6 lessons from their recent work
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Its ‘money moved’ has quadrupled to around $600 million a year. enabling them to investigate a far broader range of interventions that could plausibly help people an enormous amount for each dollar spent. GiveWell shouldn’t just do more of the same thing, but rather ought to look at the problem diff
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  • Its ‘money moved’ has quadrupled to around $600 million a year.
  • enabling them to investigate a far broader range of interventions that could plausibly help people an enormous amount for each dollar spent.
  • GiveWell shouldn’t just do more of the same thing, but rather ought to look at the problem differently.
  • ‘lives saved,’ ‘household incomes doubled,’ and for health improvements, the ‘quality-adjusted life year.’
  • GiveWell should try to cash out the impact of all interventions in terms of improvements in subjective wellbeing. According to HLI, it’s improvements in wellbeing and reductions in suffering that are the true ultimate goal of all projects, and if you quantify everyone on this same scale, using some measure like the wellbeing-adjusted life year (WEL...

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