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No, it's not a charity. But he's giving away all his money to charity..? How is that not philanthropic? How are gates or zuckerberg not philanthropists?

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Show me people that are directly helped by these "philantropists" and I'll tell you if I think they are doing "charity" or not. Charity like internet.org is scam.

Thanks for the question – this is Ben (subject of OP).

I listed some causes I think are valuable in the interview, but in general I think GiveWell and ACE are good evaluators:

* http://www.givewell.org/ * http://www.animalcharityevaluators.org/

For each charity they recommend, they have estimates of number of lives saved per dollar.

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