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I agree that the examples we
I agree that the examples we’ve provided aren’t sufficient - on their own - to show that hits-based giving has a high overall expected value. I think the key question, as you say, is how many failures we should expect for each success along those lines, and that’s something we don’t have a good way of figuring out at this point.
A few considerations that I think point in favor of trying hits-based giving, though: