Now we should both relax. In retrospect it’s painfully obvious that I should’ve chosen the charitable interpretation* on the basis of your comment’s general impersonal nature and your history here. However, I was already polemizing for polemics’ sake elsewhere, so the monkey brain decided to shift fire onto a target of oppotunity too.
- I wholeheartedly agree that this is indeed bullshit* rationalists say, yeah.
I don’t think we should stop all international aid despite its low effectiveness. (e.g. the “1 laptop per child”-idea is pretty awesome)
Of course I agree in practice, but in a completely bullshit binary situation where it’s either all the current aid, both laptops and the substandard food etc, vs no aid at all, I’d say that no aid at all probably does less harm.
Now we should both relax. In retrospect it’s painfully obvious that I should’ve chosen the charitable interpretation* on the basis of your comment’s general impersonal nature and your history here. However, I was already polemizing for polemics’ sake elsewhere, so the monkey brain decided to shift fire onto a target of oppotunity too.
- I wholeheartedly agree that this is indeed bullshit* rationalists say, yeah.
Of course I agree in practice, but in a completely bullshit binary situation where it’s either all the current aid, both laptops and the substandard food etc, vs no aid at all, I’d say that no aid at all probably does less harm.
No problem, I’m the one to blame since I misread your post. In retrospect I probably shouldn’t have read the post on melatonin :-)