ChristianKl comments on Taking Effective Altruism Seriously - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 06 June 2015 11:09:04AM 15 points [-]

Unfortunately, no-one knows how to turn poor African countries into productive Western ones, short of colonization.

The UN millennium goals of halving the amount of people in extreme poverty from 1990 to 2015 was successfully achieved 5 years ahead of schedule. We achieved that without any colonization.