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Doing Good Better

... Effective Altruism ...

William MacAskill, Hillsboro Lib. 171.8 MACASKILL 2016

• p001 Windmill water pumps, long waits on windless days

• p002 Ronnie Stuiver, merry-go-round PlayPump fail

• p008 Kremer: deworming children (pennies per treatment) increased school participation by 25%
  • $100 purchases 10 years of extra school participation, increases subsequent adult income, pays for itself

  • https://www.evidenceaction.org/programs/deworm-the-world

• p012 https://www.givewell.org/ ... $5000 per life saved

• p012 https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ Giving What W Can

• p018 Global top 1% - greater than $52K/year, top 5% $28K/year, top 10% 16K/year, top 15% $11K/year
• p023 100x multiplier - expect a dollar to benefit the poorest 100 times as much as it benefits you
• p024 Graph comparing US/India (Angus Maddison 2008), India seems approx 160 years behind at $2K GDP
• p030 James Orbinski Red Cross in Uganda, triage, let many die to maximize outcome for most
• p034 QALY quality adjusted life year
• p038 Dialysis average quality of life 56%, most people estimate average 39%
• p039 "Doubling income increases subjective well-being 5%"
• p045 Sub-Saharan Africa life expectancy 1950 36.7y, 2015 56 years
• p045 Conflict deaths 12M since 1973; smallpox was 3M per year, eradication saved 5 times more lives
• p052 Effectiveness Graph, 1 QALY: Kaposi's sarcoma $50K, Condom promotion $500, Antiretroviral therapy $200, Bed net $100

• p059 2011 Sendai Earthquake: external assistance was not required. 2010 Haiti and 2008 Sichuan earthquakes far worse

• p061 $50K to train a guide dog, $100 to cure developing world person of blindness.
• p061 Cancer versus third world malaria, 60 times discrepancy.
• p065 One extra US doctor, 40 year career, 160 QALYs, 4 lives saved ... Ethiopia extra doctor, 12000 QALYs

• p067 1966 38yo MD Donald Henderson WHO goal, wipe out smallpox in 10 years, last natural case 1977 in Ethiopia

• p068 instigated by Viktor Zhdanov in 1958

• p072 Scared Straight did more harm than good

• p076 Earning to give

• p080 Fukushima meltdown due to intentional dismissal of natural disasters during planning

• p082 micromort

• p088 expected value from consumer or voter choice isn't "1", but close.
• p094 politics, research, and entrepreneurship highly competitive with earning to give.
• p097 US 21T CO2eq/year social cost $670 for median 2 to 4℃ , but 5% risk of 6℃ and small risk of 10℃

• p103 Books for Africa vs DMI health education vs Give Directly M-Pesa direct transfer

• p108 books: no effect, DMI $360 per saved life (evidence weak), Give Directly more scalable but less effective

• p122 Give Directly DMI Deworm Schistosomiasis Malaria Living Goods Iodine Global Network

• p128 Sweatshops: bad reputation, but the best alternative available in most 3rd world countries
• p131 fast transition to modern economy - the west took a century, Asian tigers took a few decades
• p132 shutdowns: laid off workers to subcontractors and prostitution
• p134 fair-trade: 1% to 10% of higher price reaches producers, lower wages for workers

• p134 Fair Trade, Employment and Poverty Reduction (ftepr.org ) Report

• p136 Green living: lights less than 3% energy use, plastic bags 0.4%, greenhouse local more energy than international transport

• p137 "Greens" diss offseting, book suggests Cool Earth to purchase and protect rain forest rating review

• p141 eliminating chicken and eggs removes majority of animal suffering from diet (worst conditions)
• p142 Average American diet year in animal years: 3.3 broiler chickens, 1.0 layer hens, 0.3 turkeys, 0.2 pigs, 0.1 beef cows, 0.03 dairy cows

• p143 Animal Charity Evaluators promotes vegetarianism

• p144 Moral Licensing

• p147 "Follow your passion" ... passions change

• p151 job characteristic theory

  • Independence, Sense of Completion, Variety, Feedback from Job, Contribution

• p163 Earning to give

• p164 App Academy wikipedia ( ... but 5% acceptance rate)

• p168 David Brooks aout Jason Trigg daily activity detaches you from original commitment

• p169 Entrepreneurship: Why hasn't this problem been solved by markets, the state, philanthropy?

• p171 Norman Borlaug

• p173 Fields Medal indicates recipient ... "capable of accomplishing something truly important, and didn't"

• p175 Volunteering may consume valuable management capacity.

• p181 Choosing a framework: scale of problem, neglectedness, tractability, personal fit

• p184 global poverty, US criminal justice reform, international labor mobility, factory farming, 2 to 4℃ climate change, catastrophic climate change
• p197 What to do?
  • Establish a habit of regular giving
  • Write down a plan for how you're going to incorporate effective altruism into your life

  • Join the effective altruism community

  • Tell others about effective altruism