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If they spent 100x longer deciding where to donate, then most effective altruists would choose targets with much higher expected impact.

Edited by RyanCarey last updated 23rd Dec 2016

This time could be spent on reading existing analyses, interviewing plausible donation targets, or performing new analysis. The question does not factor in the time cost of doing this research.

If it is helpful to spend a long time on analysis, then we may want to use donor lotteries.

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