@interfluidity Predictably, I liked @dylanmatt's readout on the debate:https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18215534/bill-gates-global-poverty-chart …
Just finished reading it, I thought that was a great piece. It made me understand many important points (especially from Hickel, who I was reading less sympathetically) that I'd previously missed. Thanks @dylanmatt!
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It wasn’t bad, as someone who probably read with the opposite sympathy! Ultimately, I think this is not an empirical debate — everyone can come to reasonable convergence about the empirical claims, except perhaps with respect to how much we should discount certain kinds of
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uncertainty, which mixes empirical questions and judgment calls. People like me will object when we see this empirical constellation used to justify status quo or near status quo economic and policy arrangements: we do not think they justify that, instead they point to past
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