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Sequence thinking vs. cluster thinking

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Note: this is an unusually long and abstract post whose primary purpose is to help a particular subset of our audience understand our style of

This post is more than 12 years old Note: this is an unusually long and abstract post whose primary purpose is to help a particular subset of our audience understand our style of reasoning. It does not contain substantive updates on our research and recommendations. GiveWell – both our traditional work and GiveWell Labs – is fundamentally about maximization: doing as much good as possible with each dollar you donate. This introduces some major conceptual challenges when making certain kinds of comparisons – for example, how does one compare the impact of distributing bednets

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