My brother in Christ, did you read the article you linked? Read the study it was centrally based on? I don't even like bed nets that much but lets actually discuss the facts of it here, in one of the places we can, rather than low effort sniping or whatever that was.
Firstly, and most confusingly, the article you link to is pro bed net use for malaria prevention, while also presenting some concerns about them being used for fishing, highlighting the need for mitigation - it's right there:
“Whilst we are wholly supportive of the efforts of the healthcare community to tackle [malaria], which is so damaging to people’s lives, we would strongly advocate further research into the potential impacts of this unintended consequence,” said Rebecca Short of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), who led the new research.
Bednets definitely save lives, many lives, even allowing for uses in fishing, that's a trivially dumb thing to argue. Furthermore EAs as whole totally have saved lives (as well as messed around with shrimps or whatever, lets critique bits for sure), and things like the Lead Elimination Project and many others have had crazy outsized impacts. Are you arguing they have saved none? No one? By what criteria?
Also, I'm a bit confused about your model of EAs. Do you think any of the above article is a surprise to Givewell? Given this from cursory googling? I mean, thats huge, and I'm sure you could critique a lot in there, but the fact you didn't try suggests to me you're not modelling your opponent very well, or even at all. I bet we have EAs here, have you tried asking them?
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My brother in Christ, did you read the article you linked? Read the study it was centrally based on? I don't even like bed nets that much but lets actually discuss the facts of it here, in one of the places we can, rather than low effort sniping or whatever that was.
Firstly, and most confusingly, the article you link to is pro bed net use for malaria prevention, while also presenting some concerns about them being used for fishing, highlighting the need for mitigation - it's right there:
Bednets definitely save lives, many lives, even allowing for uses in fishing, that's a trivially dumb thing to argue. Furthermore EAs as whole totally have saved lives (as well as messed around with shrimps or whatever, lets critique bits for sure), and things like the Lead Elimination Project and many others have had crazy outsized impacts. Are you arguing they have saved none? No one? By what criteria?
Also, I'm a bit confused about your model of EAs. Do you think any of the above article is a surprise to Givewell? Given this from cursory googling? I mean, thats huge, and I'm sure you could critique a lot in there, but the fact you didn't try suggests to me you're not modelling your opponent very well, or even at all. I bet we have EAs here, have you tried asking them?
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