“Navigating donation dilemmas: customizable Moral Parliament tools for better decision-making” by Hayley Clatterbuck
Update: 2025-10-20
Description
Executive Summary
- Donors often navigate difficult choices among projects that have different outcomes and promote different values. Standard cost-effectiveness analyses allow us to see how changing assumptions (e.g., regarding moral weights or probabilities of success) can change our evaluations of individual interventions. However, they are less apt for dealing with uncertainty about these assumptions or navigating disagreements among stakeholders.
- Our Moral Parliament Tool allows users to navigate uncertainty about key assumptions that affect our assessment of interventions. It does so by representing diverse perspectives as delegates in a democratic decision-making process about how to distribute resources to various causes or projects.
- What's new: We have added functionality to the original Parliament Tool, which allows it to be adapted to novel resource allocation problems simply by editing a spreadsheet.
- The tool is not limited to evaluating broad moral philosophies and cause areas. It can be applied to many kinds of worldviews [...]
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Outline:
(00:14 ) Executive Summary
(03:01 ) Introduction
(05:35 ) Making a Moral Parliament
(05:39 ) Components
(07:38 ) Specifying the problem space
(09:09 ) Getting started
(10:16 ) Acknowledgments
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First published:
October 15th, 2025
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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