GiveWell's $299k Beneficiary Preference Research Contextualizes Dario Donation Debate
austinc3301 · x · 2026-11-09
austinc3301 adds that the debated Dario Amodei donation post came from GiveWell circa 2010, which has since adopted beneficiary preference surveys that directly ask potential recipients their aid preferences.
GiveWell's page shows a January 2025 grant of $299,083 to IDinsight, 90% funding pilots on how people in low-income countries trade off health, income, subjective well-being, and contraception access — to update the "moral weights" in its cost-effectiveness models, last revisited in 2020 via a 2019 Kenya/Ghana survey.
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