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Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad? by googlryas on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:41PM (#33618538)
I feel like real effective altruism is achieved by sites like charity navigator, which give you a sense of how well your donations to a given cause are spent by the organization.
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Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad? by joindpp on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:56PM (#33619059)
This is not really true. Charity Navigator incentivize that charities operate on a shoestring which is not very effective: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...
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Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad? by googlryas on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:43AM (#33620134)
I haven't watched the video (yet), but for example wikipedia has a stellar near-perfect rating, but still devote 15%/$12M of their budget to salaries which surely could be cut drastically if they wanted to really be on a shoestring.
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