orthonormal comments on You're Calling Who A Cult Leader? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 10 August 2009 08:57:22PM 1 point [-]

Ergo, "one person with clean water and another with a malaria net" feels intuitively like you're doing more than "two people with clean water".

Well, not when you compare them against each other, but only when each is considered on its own: it's like this phenomenon.