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the following fictional dialogue is a complete unapologetic strawman but it's funny enough i had to bring it into being:
“So I asked myself: where can I make the most impact? And clearly malaria is the most important area.”
“And so you decided to donate all of your money to buy malaria nets?”
“Well, so it turns out that saving lives from malaria is actually kind of expensive and indirect. You see, it costs thousands of dollars to save a life. Statistically. Who knows if you’re actually changing anyone's life that way?”
“And so you found a more efficient way to save lives.”
“Actually, it turns out that it’s cheaper to give people malaria. It's a lot more impactful and the technical problems are more interesting.”
"I see. Isn't more malaria bad though?"
"I don't know, but I find it much easier to work on because the feedback loops are much tighter. Maybe one day, if malaria gets big enough, I’ll go work on saving people from malaria. But we're still a long way away from everyone having malaria."
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