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Worth highlighting the last item, since guessing most won’t make it that far: >> Critiquing our approach >> Research That Can Help Us Improve >> We’d love to
by O__________O 4y ago
Worth highlighting the last item, since guessing most won’t make it that far:
>> Critiquing our approach
>> Research That Can Help Us Improve
>> We’d love to fund research that changes our worldview—for example, by highlighting a billion-dollar cause area we are missing—or significantly narrows down our range of uncertainty. We’d also be excited to fund research that tries to identify mistakes in our reasoning or approach, or in the reasoning or approach of effective altruism or longtermism more generally.
- jlizzle30 4y agoIn the same way dropping foreign aid on a country to ‘solve’ hunger can make the problem worse, EA money could distort market forces if it became big enough. I suspect it’s very difficult to find investments that return more net good than standard businesses.