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AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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Yeah. I don't think you need the full ideological framework and all its baggage to get to "medical interventions and direct cash transfers are consistently shown to have strong positive impacts relative to the resources invested." That framework prevents you from adding on "they also avoid some of the negative impact that foreign aid can have on domestic institution-building processes" which is a really important consideration. Of course, that assumes the goal is to mitigate and remediate the damage done by colonialism and imperialism rather than perpetuting the same structures in a way that the imperialists at the top can feel good about. And for a lot of the donor class that EA orgs are chasing I don't think that's actually the case.