Worldview Investigations
How can we compare cost-effectiveness analyses across different cause areas that have distinct units of measurement?
What are the implications of moral uncertainty for work on different cause areas?
What difference would various levels of risk and ambiguity aversion have on cause prioritization? Can those levels be justified?
Rethink Priorities’ Worldview Investigations Team (WIT) tackles these types of challenging meta-questions to help philanthropists do the most good.
Research
WIT’s research includes the Moral Weight Project and the CURVE Sequence (Causes and Uncertainty: Rethinking Value in Expectation), which have sparked important conversations among those looking to have a positive impact on the world.
In addition to reading the full reports, you can see WIT’s work featured here:
“Can We Compare Pain Across Species?” by Peter Singer
80,000 Hours podcast with Host Luisa Rodriguez and Rethink Priorities’ Senior Research Manager Bob Fischer
How I Learned to Love Shrimp podcast with Hosts Amy Odene and James Ozden and Rethink Priorities’ Bob Fischer
In the future, the team plans to work on moral uncertainty and resource allocation, digital minds, and other topics.
Tools for Philanthropists
The Worldview Investigations Team also developed and launched its cross-cause cost-effectiveness model. This interactive tool helps decision-makers consider the impacts of various uncertainties on their priorities and resource allocation.
We invite you to try the tool yourself here.