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Why would i spend my time explaining this to you when i could spend that time consulting and then use that money to buy mosquito nets for people in Africa?
by dbuder 4y ago
Why would i spend my time explaining this to you when i could spend that time consulting and then use that money to buy mosquito nets for people in Africa?
- lvass 4y agoWhoa, calm down. Subsidizing afghan plumbers may be 0.5% more effective than those nets.
- SunghoYahng 4y agoYou never know what your explanation will lead to. - Maybe a future billionaire -
- sinenomine 4y agoMosquito nets and deworming pills were on the better side of it: >Then you will be delighted/horrified to find out that the effective altruism community doesn't feel the need to make quantifiable justifications for how they spend their own donations, as evidenced by this $20k grant they gave someone to learn to ride a bike and think about AI[1]. >That's about 3853 to 4090 mosquito nets' worth of donations, using GiveWell's numbers for the Against Malaria Foundation https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CJJDwgyqT4gXktq6g/long-term-future-fund-april-2019-grant-decisions#Lauren_Lee___20_000__ https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CJJDwgyqT4gXktq6g/...
- lupire 4y agoThis is the same intellectual laziness that says Muslims are terrorists, white people are slavers, and black people are criminals.