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show me your role models who have directly improved the world, not just the people who have told others that they should
I’m surprised to read this.
Although an important part of their job is thinking, some of those figures have founded organisations like Giving What We Can, 80,000 hours or GiveWell, which is actually (a lot of) doing.
Also, pledging to donate at least 10% of their income until they retire, thus saving several lives and helping thousands of people by preventing that they get terrible diseases is “improving the world directly” rather than thinking. (Although that impact is probably neglegible compared what they achieved in other ways, it is still a lot of good).
We have now published it: https://ayudaefectiva.org/entregar-dinero-vara-medir
Thanks again!
By the way, the link in "In one study, a 55-cent increase in the price of a bednet decreased takeup by 23 percentage points" is broken.
Here one that is working: https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/32/2/178/2555424
Nice. Thanks! :)
Love it, thanks for writing it!
Would it be OK for you if we (Ayuda Efectiva, a Spanish effective giving org) publish an adapted shortened version? (Linking to this post, of course).
You mention Artists for Impact. Have you talked to @Fernando_MG to learn what he already tried?
Nice to hear about this!
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Is there any alternative email to contact you?
Very excited to see this book becoming a reality!
I’m surprised to read this. Although an important part of their job is thinking, some of those figures have founded organisations like Giving What We Can, 80,000 hours or GiveWell, which is actually (a lot of) doing. Also, pledging to donate at least 10% of their income until they retire, thus saving several lives and helping thousands of people by preventing that they get terrible diseases is “improving the world directly” rather than thinking. (Although that impact is probably neglegible compared what they achieved in other ways, it is still a lot of good).
Interesting idea! Thanks for sharing it :)
I realised that there are some points in this reasoning that are not clear to me:
Have you talked to One for the World? They might have tried already a similar approach.