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Mosquito 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/...

This is the same intellectual laziness that says Muslims are terrorists, white people are slavers, and black people are criminals.

Whoa, calm down. Subsidizing afghan plumbers may be 0.5% more effective than those nets.

You never know what your explanation will lead to.

- Maybe a future billionaire -