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Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)

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The Dangers of Trusting RCTs Too Blindly

Givwell: I think it's a good thing that people are critiquing effective altruism. He says EA is setting an impossibly high threshold for doing anything, and a much higher bar than we would apply to anything else. Givwell: If you could never be positive, then you shouldn't do it.

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