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Comment author: bramflakes 04 December 2014 08:29:20PM *  6 points [-]

Depends on what kind of NRx. There isn't a single value system shared among them.

The popular trichotomy is "Techno-commercialist / Theonomist / Ethno-nationalist" - I don't know about the first two, but the ethnonationalists would probably disagree with a lot of Givewell's suggestions.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 05 December 2014 05:01:28PM 3 points [-]

ethnonationalists would probably disagree with a lot of Givewell's suggestions.

Not uniformly, I think - Japan is an Ethno-nationalist state, and also used to be the world's largest supplier of foreign aid.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 December 2014 07:48:02PM 3 points [-]

Ethno-nationalists certainly have no problem with geopolitics or mutually-beneficial investment, and foreign aid can be useful there.