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Ranking charities by their estimated expected value alone removes any reward for being transparent about how they actually work.

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  1. Holden Karnofsky

    Co-founder of GiveWell

    EEV doesn’t seem to allow rewarding charities for transparency or penalizing them for opacity: it simply recommends giving to the charity with the highest estimated expected value, regardless of how well-grounded the estimate is.

    Where this was said

    ↗Why we can’t take expected value estimates literally (even when they’re unbiased)blog.givewell.org

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