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Lumifer comments on What is the most anti-altruistic way to spend a million dollars? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 25 March 2014 02:02:14AM 2 points [-]

whether our first impulse answers (probably industries and ideologies we'd like to take pot shots at) are actually really "the worst".

My first impulse was to try to arrange a war or at least a large secession movement somewhere in South-East Asia... :-P

Comment author: Punoxysm 25 March 2014 02:08:31AM 2 points [-]

The ones that have momentum are saturated, and the ones that don't won't get going with 1 million. Also, not all secessions have turned out poorly (though certainly many have).