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Noah Birnbaum's avatar

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32073/w32073.pdf

Here is a good working paper that is related to your point about different action.

Pretty speculative: Id say that one can make the claim (I am quite sympathetic to this) that arguments about normative theories are less important for individuals and more important for states and policy (when they eventually affect how economists and policymakers think). Disagreement among people just motivates people to come up with disagreements and is largely irrelevant to individual behavior.

I would say that this seems not to apply to Effective Altruists, which I think is an excellent thing!

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Irshaad's avatar

I suspect you may be largely correct.

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