A Few Thoughts of Effective Altruism
Imagine that you had to allocate US $100 million toward charitable donations, and you can’t ask another person to advise you. What, roughly, would your donations look like? What would your reasons be? This can be a very rough answer (e.g. “X% for cause A, Y% for cause B…”) or more specific — whatever you choose. Saying you'll give all the money to GiveWell, OpenPhilanthropy, or other funds goes against the spirit of this question. [The below was generated in ~30min -- further levels of analysis would be possible with more time resources spent.] A challenging question and one which immediately generates a mental state of a combination of "don't mess this up" and "it's important to do this well", as we're discussing a considerable amount of resources. I'll start my analysis with a few principles to help organize my thinking: Aggressive v. Thoughtful timelines: trying to quickly give away all the resources, at a certain level of confid...