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Why I'm skeptical of cost-effectiveness analysis
Reposting as comment because mods told me this wasn't thorough enough to be a post.
Briefly:
I wanted to ask what kind of conclusions this line of reasoning leads you to make. But am I right to think that this is a very short summary of your series of posts exploring consequentialist cluelessness (http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1hh/what_consequences/)? In that case the answer is in the last post of the series, right?