X was roughly “we should donate to speculative projects with long term goals” and Y was “we should focus on developing the economy and improving education”.
Arguments supporting “some things are too good to be true” / “I’m very skeptical of speculative projects” were against X. The statement deriding Y (quoted above) seemed out of place, because you did not successfully link economic development and education improvement with the class of speculative long-term charities that you argue against supporting.
For what it’s worth, I still don’t think that public education / economic development fall into that class. They are long term, but their impact is well supported. The arguments that caused me to update were:
1) Reducing disease goes a long way towards stimulating the economy and improving education levels
2) Simply reducing attack vectors goes a long way towards eliminating diseases
3) It is difficult to find other means of economic/educational stimulus that are more effective (after adjusting for risk)
So while I agree more with your conclusions now, I still think that the jab at promoting economic development / education is out of place.
In other words, the current connotation of the article (with respect to economic stimulus) is “you think you should fund education/economic growth, but you should actually fund AMF instead”, whereas I think the correct connotation is more like “even if you want to fund education/economic growth, AMF is the best way to do it”.
X was roughly “we should donate to speculative projects with long term goals” and Y was “we should focus on developing the economy and improving education”.
Arguments supporting “some things are too good to be true” / “I’m very skeptical of speculative projects” were against X. The statement deriding Y (quoted above) seemed out of place, because you did not successfully link economic development and education improvement with the class of speculative long-term charities that you argue against supporting.
For what it’s worth, I still don’t think that public education / economic development fall into that class. They are long term, but their impact is well supported. The arguments that caused me to update were:
1) Reducing disease goes a long way towards stimulating the economy and improving education levels
2) Simply reducing attack vectors goes a long way towards eliminating diseases
3) It is difficult to find other means of economic/educational stimulus that are more effective (after adjusting for risk)
So while I agree more with your conclusions now, I still think that the jab at promoting economic development / education is out of place.
In other words, the current connotation of the article (with respect to economic stimulus) is “you think you should fund education/economic growth, but you should actually fund AMF instead”, whereas I think the correct connotation is more like “even if you want to fund education/economic growth, AMF is the best way to do it”.