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It costs about $2500 to save a life by donating to GiveWell's top charities. And yes, they publish an absurd amount of data to back this claim up, including a
by jlebar 7y ago
It costs about $2500 to save a life by donating to GiveWell's top charities.
And yes, they publish an absurd amount of data to back this claim up, including a carefully-annotated spreadsheet which you can plug your own assumptions into.
https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effec...
It's really hard for me to argue that there's a better way to spend your money.
- johnmorrison 7y agoWhat does save a life mean? Everybody dies eventually, so how do you measure lives saved? Avoided premature deaths that would have otherwise happened?
- jlebar 7y agoIndeed there is a large amount of ambiguity in my statement. The aforelinked spreadsheet answers them.