If that's the most effective way of helping people, why would they not do that? They do more than that though, they fund projects of many different kinds. They also coach people to go into fields where they can have a positive impact for example.
> wasn't one of their initial proposals that deworming medications should be sent to rural Africa, for its disproportionate impact it could have?
They have different funds:
- Global Health and Development Fund [0]
- Animal Welfare Fund [1]
- Long-Term Future Fund[2]
- Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund[3]
Deworming would go under "Global health and development" (if it's estimated to be the most effective) and AI under "Long-term future fund".
Per GiveWell's website, around 3.7 million has gone to LTFF since 2020, 6.5 to the animal welfare fund, and 14ish to GH&D. So it's more like 15%, and the majority of the LTFF funding is what I'd describe as "self-dealing", in that it's almost all money to fund members of the EA/longtermist community for thinking about things.
(I should note, I donate a decent sum to GiveWell each year, though only to the Global Development fund, and it deeply irks me that they don't put some of their effort into innovative ideas to combat climate change)
If that's the most effective way of helping people, why would they not do that? They do more than that though, they fund projects of many different kinds. They also coach people to go into fields where they can have a positive impact for example.
> wasn't one of their initial proposals that deworming medications should be sent to rural Africa, for its disproportionate impact it could have?
They have different funds:
- Global Health and Development Fund [0]
- Animal Welfare Fund [1]
- Long-Term Future Fund[2]
- Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund[3]
Deworming would go under "Global health and development" (if it's estimated to be the most effective) and AI under "Long-term future fund".
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0. https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/global-development
1. https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare
2. https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future
3. https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/ea-community