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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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What Holden Karnofsky actually said
- 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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