cousin_it comments on Money Can’t Buy the Smile on a Child’s Face As They Look at A Beautiful Sunset… but it also can’t buy a malaria free world: my current understanding of how Effective Altruism has failed

[cousin_it]

The malaria thing seems like the load-bearing part of the post, so I’d really like to know the details. The GiveWell website currently says:

It costs between $3,000 and $8,000 to save a life in countries where GiveWell currently supports AMF to deliver ITN campaigns.

Should I strongly doubt that and why?

[ChristianKl]

There are complex argument that can be made, but the simple one is because GiveWell is saying that those numbers aren’t supposed to be taken literally.