We started a charity to alleviate wild fish suffering. We spent $30k trying to contact fish farmers via email. This didn't work, so we gave up. We consider the project a success. - eviltoast
How we started our own EA charity (and why we decided to wrap up) — EA Forum
forum.effectivealtruism.org
A retrospective on six months of work focused on improving slaughter conditions in Mediterranean aquaculture.
  • JohnBierce@awful.systemsEnglish
    17·
    8 months ago

    How delightfully ineffective

    (Seriously, what has Effective Altruism ever accomplished beyond buying castles?)

    • titotal@awful.systemsEnglish
      27·
      8 months ago

      The “malaria nets” side of it has done legitimate good, because they didn’t try to reinvent the wheel from scratch, stuck to actual science and existing, well performing charitable organisations.

      global poverty still gets a good portion of the EA funding, but is slowly falling out of the movement because it’s boring to discuss and you can’t make any dubiously effective startups out of it.