Re:Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each chari...
by Retric on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:54AM
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Discovery is by it's nature a random process, so a single 10,000$ investment could with some low probability make a 30 year difference for some drug.
People only investigate a finite number of things, adding just 1 more to the early stage to the millions already tried is not likely to be useful, but we simply don't know.
PS: After that point much larger sums are involved, but even then only a finite number of tests get done and they are very dependent on funding.
People only investigate a finite number of things, adding just 1 more to the early stage to the millions already tried is not likely to be useful, but we simply don't know.
PS: After that point much larger sums are involved, but even then only a finite number of tests get done and they are very dependent on funding.