What Holden Karnofsky thinks about behavioural science

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Co-founder of GiveWell, the charity evaluator that ranks giving opportunities by how much good a dollar does, and later of Open Philanthropy. Wrote the blog Cold Takes from 2021 to 2023 on ethics, forecasting and the long-run future.

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1. 18 Aug 2011

   Our readingThe moment one cause looks far better than every other on thin information is exactly the moment it most needs sceptical investigation.

   Their wordsYet it seems that when people are valuing one action far above others, based on thin information, this is the time when skeptical inquiry is needed most.

   ↗Why we can’t take expected value estimates literally (even when they’re unbiased)blog.givewell.org 3rd of 8 in this piece