Navigating donation dilemmas: customizable Moral Parliament tools for better decision-making

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.

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.   

We have built four ready-to-use parliaments that demonstrate the versatility and utility of the tool:

• GiveWell Parliament: Evaluate global health charities using different moral weights, including animal welfare considerations that GiveWell does not currently include [post / parliament]
• Animal Parliament: Set funding priorities across different kinds of farmed animals (chickens, fish, shrimp, and insects) given uncertainty about sentience, welfare ranges, and project success rates [post / parliament]
• Bioethics Parliament: Allocate healthcare resources in light of diverse bioethical views (e.g., Rule of Rescue, Utilitarian, etc.). [post / parliament]
• Movement Building Parliament: navigate strategic decisions about growing effective altruism (though this is more speculative and serves primarily as a template for users to modify) [post / parliament]