What Holden Karnofsky thinks about family

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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 readingA world where altruists followed expected-value estimates would be one where nearly all of them helped distant strangers instead of the people around them, and that world would be worse.

   Their wordsIn such a world, it seems that nearly all altruists would put nearly all of their resources toward helping people they knew little about, rather than helping themselves, their families and their communities. I believe that the world would be worse off if people behaved in this way, or at least if they took it to an extreme.

   ↗Why we can’t take expected value estimates literally (even when they’re unbiased)blog.givewell.org 2nd of 8 in this piece