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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by noname120 on Friday June 20, 2025 @05:48AM (#44326117)
EA people gave a total of $817,276,989 to malaria initiatives through GiveWell[1][2].

How much more do they need to give before you will change your mind about whether “EA's actually want to do something about malaria”?

[1] https://www.givewell.org/all-grants-fund

[2] https://airtable.com/appGuFtOIb1eodoBu/shr1EzngorAlEzziP/tbl...

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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by UncleMeat on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:41AM (#44327153)
I've used GiveWell for donations and don't consider myself an Effective Altruist. Does GiveWell get to count for the just the EA community?
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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by Viliam1234 on Friday June 20, 2025 @03:53PM (#44331376)
By analogy, if a Catholic Church created a charity for curing malaria, and I donated money to it, that wouldn't make me Catholic. But still the existence of the charity, especially if people donated over a billion dollars to it, would be a credible argument against people saying "Catholics do nothing about curing malaria". Does that make sense?
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