army1987 comments on How minimal is our intelligence? - Less Wrong
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And I claim that where? Are you claiming that the donors are perfectly rational and have unlimited willpower - and are also perfectly altruistic?
My claim is the modest and surely uncontroversial one that JoshuaZ's "random African" is a better guardian of his own welfare than you, or Bill Gates, or a random do-gooder.
Because you gave everyone else in the area a bednet, so now there's a local glut. But yes, I'm sure some people do sell their bednets.
I'm not.
I might agree about myself or “a random do-gooder” (dunno about Gates), but these people do look like they've done their homework.