VoiceOfRa comments on Taking Effective Altruism Seriously - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 09 June 2015 02:44:51AM 0 points [-]

No, my claim was about what colonialism messed up. However, by describing what colonialism messed up, my link also necessarily describes a bit of what Africa was like before colonialism, so I don't understand your complaint anyways.

Yes, in particular it appears to have been comparable to bronze age Eurasia. There were remarkably few states in sub-Saharan Africa pre-colonialism, even fewer if we ignore Arab/Persian colonialism.