Hi all, We've excluded these groups to date because we haven't (a) found useful literature on the effects of their interventions; (b) developed a good way of...
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Ben Hoskin
ben.hoskin@...
Jan 3, 2012 1:55 pm
It seems a prior they'd be a lot less effective, as slavers fight back in a way malaria doesn't....
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Alexander Berger
albrgr
Jan 14, 2012 12:05 am
Hello everyone, A few people have told us that there's no way for GiveWell followers to know when we publish new pages. Of course, people know when we update...
Hello everyone, New/updated pages: - We've updated our review of the Small Enterprise Foundation: ...
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Vipul Naik
vipul@...
Mar 23, 2012 6:04 pm
Hi Alexander, Regarding VillageReach, is this the VillageReach update that you said you'd be publishing soon? The link you have given is to a re-analysis of...
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Elie Hassenfeld
elie@...
Mar 26, 2012 5:43 pm
Hi Vipul, Thanks for the email and for continuing to follow up with us about publishing our VillageReach update. Today, we've: 1. Published a summary of the...
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Alexander Berger
albrgr
Apr 23, 2012 4:50 pm
Hi all, We've been doing some more research on insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs), in particular trying to better understand the case for universal ...
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Alexander Berger
albrgr
Apr 23, 2012 5:31 pm
And, as Rob astutely pointed out, it is* LLIN distribution*, not *deworming*, that should appear in this sentence: "Roughly speaking, the greater proportion of...
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Alexander Berger
albrgr
Apr 30, 2012 2:12 pm
Hi everyone, We've posted a new review of Give Directly (which continues to be a "standout"; organization) at * ...
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Alexander Berger
albrgr
May 22, 2012 6:32 pm
Hi everyone, On May 9th, we held a research event at our office in New York to discuss updates on past top-rated charities (AMF, SCI, and VillageReach) as well...
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Brigid Slipka
brigid.slipka@...
May 22, 2012 8:08 pm
Hi Alex, Just a quick question in regards to AMF that I couldn't find in the transcript or on the website: how long do the nets last? Which is really two...
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Alexander Berger
albrgr
May 23, 2012 2:40 pm
Hi Brigid, Thanks for the question. Net manufacturers claim an effective lifespan for their ITNs of 5 years, but we assume an average lifespan of 2.22 years ...
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Vipul Naik
vipul@...
May 23, 2012 3:46 pm
Hi Alex, On the Nyaya Health page, the "updated" date at the top (just above the "Donate Now" button) says November 28, 2011, without any indication that you...
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Alexander Berger
albrgr
May 23, 2012 4:01 pm
Hi Vipul, Thanks for the suggestion. Given that we haven't actually updated any of the contents of the page other than posting the new docs, we think that ...
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Alexander Berger
albrgr
Aug 16, 2012 9:32 pm
We've recently published the following pages: - An intervention report on zinc supplementation to treat diarrhea: ...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Oct 11, 2012 3:09 am
Note to the research list: we're now considering reopening our investigation of the world of biomedical research. We've started and stopped a couple of times...
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Vipul Naik
vipul@...
Oct 11, 2012 3:55 am
Holden, First, I think that this is an excellent document. I checked for a number of things that I had heard about (Breakout Labs, John Ioannidis, Cochrane...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Oct 11, 2012 5:38 pm
Hi Vipul, Thanks for the thoughts. I had a followup conversation with Dario about this topic a few days ago. I think the question of "could one fund ...
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Carl M. Shulman
carl.shulman@...
Oct 12, 2012 12:14 am
One area worth mentioning is the problem of false positive results from bad practices in academia (error, data mining, publication bias, etc) leading to waste...
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Dario Amodei
damodei@...
Oct 12, 2012 12:40 am
I agree strongly on the importance of systematically reproducing results (see this: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n9/pdf/nbt.2335.pdf, which I recently...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Oct 12, 2012 12:43 am
Carl, thanks for the thoughts & links. We agree that this is a potentially promising area of inquiry. We consider it to fall under the heading of ...
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Gwern Branwen
gwernbranwen
Oct 12, 2012 2:10 am
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Carl M. Shulman ... If anyone is curious, I stash most of my relevant quotes/links/citations in ...
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aubrey.degrey
Oct 12, 2012 11:35 am
Hi everyone, My attention was brought to this thread, by virtue of the fact that it was my work that gave rise to SENS Foundation, and I'm looking forward to...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Oct 12, 2012 2:29 pm
Hi Aubrey, Thanks for the thoughts. The NIH appears to have a division focused on research relevant to this topic: http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab . Its...
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Aubrey de Grey
aubrey.degrey
Oct 13, 2012 11:17 am
Hi Holden - many thanks. First: yes, there are really three somewhat separate questions for someone trying to evaluate whether to support SENS Foundation: 1)...
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Holden Karnofsky
holden0@...
Oct 13, 2012 4:50 pm
Hi Aubrey, Thanks again for engaging so thoughtfully. I agree that a new technology/treatment that could delay or reverse aging (or aspects of it) would be...
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Aubrey de Grey
aubrey.degrey
Oct 13, 2012 5:12 pm
Excellent. I too am keen to see Dario's comments. Dario also has the advantage of being based just a few miles from SENS Foundation's research centre, so we...
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Susheela Peres da Costa
susheela.peresdacosta...
Oct 15, 2012 2:46 am
Aubrey, I would love to hear more about two things you raise as worthwhile questions. 1) The distinction between longevity on the one hand and the postponement...
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Susheela Peres da Costa
susheela.peresdacosta...
Oct 15, 2012 3:10 am
sorry, realise a sentence wasn't finished, amended below On 15 October 2012 12:43, Susheela Peres da Costa < ... sorry, realise a sentence wasn't finished,...
