Is Effective Altruism Right? #7: Jonathan Ben-Menachem
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The Credibility Revolution
DeSouza: I have one clarifying question and then two weird things to throw at you. My impression is that the analytic philosophers like Peter Singer come afterward as a sort of marketing campaign in the way that you're describing, and I think it's significant that ethics and philosophy is also a very individualized framework right? He says RCTs aren't going to fall apart as quick because they are more straightforward than other methods such as Econometricians or statisticians. DeSouza said social scientists today basically don't believe quantitative paper making a causal claim over 15 years old. The masons and 1600s were working on professional professional standards or something.
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