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Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)

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Effective Altruism - Part 2

"I went into this call assuming that Angus's problem with effective altruism was basically that first he's focusing on the problems with foreign aid," she says. "But in fact from our conversation, I was surprised to learn that his view seems to be not that we need to use RCTs more carefully." She adds: "We're better off relying on our common sense intuitions about how to reduce poverty"

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