Then why do Singer and CEA keep making those exaggerated claims?
I don’t know. Why don’t you ask Singer and/or the CEA?
I don’t see why they’d do that if they didn’t think it was responsible for persuading at least some people.
They probably believe it is responsible for persuading at least some people. I imagine the CEA does it through some combo of revering Singer, thinking it’s good for optics, and not thinking the level of precision at which there error is taking place is so grievous as to be objectionable in the context they’re presented in.
I don’t expect to get an honest answer to “why do you keep making dishonest claims?”, for reasons I should hope to be obvious. I had hoped I might have gotten any answer at all from you about why *you *(not Singer or CEA) claim that Singer’s thesis is not based exclusively on a specific set of cost-effectiveness estimates about specific causes form specific organizations, or why you think it’s relevant that Singer’s thesis isn’t the exclusive basis for the effective altruism movement.
I don’t know. Why don’t you ask Singer and/or the CEA?
They probably believe it is responsible for persuading at least some people. I imagine the CEA does it through some combo of revering Singer, thinking it’s good for optics, and not thinking the level of precision at which there error is taking place is so grievous as to be objectionable in the context they’re presented in.
I don’t expect to get an honest answer to “why do you keep making dishonest claims?”, for reasons I should hope to be obvious. I had hoped I might have gotten any answer at all from you about why *you *(not Singer or CEA) claim that Singer’s thesis is not based exclusively on a specific set of cost-effectiveness estimates about specific causes form specific organizations, or why you think it’s relevant that Singer’s thesis isn’t the exclusive basis for the effective altruism movement.